Archive for November, 2004

Ah, for the days of the Big Dog.

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004

washingtonpost.com: Transcript: Former President Clinton Speaks at Library Dedication
I miss this man more and more each day. This brief snippet from his remarks is good, but the whole thing is worth reading. Maybe he’s got more of a bully pulpit because he’s an ex-president, and immune from the politicking that he suffered [...]

lights in the sky

Tuesday, November 9th, 2004

Driving north from Boston tonight, listening to Terry Pratchett’s Jingo, burping Boca Grande, and trying to stay awake long enough to get safely home to my Kate and my cats…
And then: dancing green lights in the sky. Northern Lights, unusually visible down to New Hampshire tonight. Wild.

finally, the eggplant

Monday, November 8th, 2004

I came to some peace this morning, sitting in Meeting. Kate and I have had a couple of conversations in the last couple of days about how hard the elections hit me, how I may be wallowing in the depression a bit, how being a sad-sack is justified and at the same time how [...]

Notification:

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2004

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thoughts.

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2004

Cynically:

This may be the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves; finally just lay back and say it — that we are really just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anybody else in the [...]