“ We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke and a presumption that once our eyes watered. ”
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Tom Stoppard
It’s a capital tragedy that I’ve yet to see this play live.
see previous postBoston Spirit magazine reported last month that when gay activists met with him in his office in 2004, as Romney was backing a failed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage in the state, Romney remarked, “I didn’t know you had families.” Julie Goodridge, lead…
reconnecting with the Jennyface! her art rocks my world….Ahhh today I did good work at a good pace so I decided to just doodle tonight, sort of like a present to myself.
It was, by any reasonable standards, a staggering, staggering lie. Here’s Paul Ryan about Barack Obama:
He created a bipartisan debt commission. They came back with an urgent report. He thanked them, sent them on their way, and then did exactly nothing.
“They.”…
Having worked for a Development office…. I fail to see how this is big news. This is pretty much what we all would do if we had the resources—and what we are doing to the greatest extent we can. I guess it’s just a wake-up call to better manage what information is floating around out there about you and who wants it.WASHINGTON (AP) - Building upon its fundraising prowess, Mitt Romney’s campaign began a secretive data-mining project this summer to sift through Americans’ personal information - including their purchasing history and church attendance - to identify new and likely wealthy…
npr:
The researchers at Pew Social & Demographic Trends aren’t holding back in their new report on the middle class. It calls the last 11 years, “the lost decade” for the country’s middle class. The highlight from the report issued today is that the middle class is poorer, earning less and shrinking.
via Pew: Middle Class Poorer, Earning Less And Shrinking : The Two-Way
In his jobs bill last fall, Obama pushed for new investments to hire more teachers, construction workers, firefighters and police officers. But those proposals were not approved by Congress, prompting the president to lambaste what he called an obstructionist Republican…
“I want to know exactly what I’m dealing with…Maybe other folks want to go through life with blinders on, but I want to know how to protect my family, and without knowing everything, you don’t really know how.” - David Daniel (Images by John Poole/NPR)
What can be worse than a ruptured pipeline of crude oil? A ruptured pipeline of tar sands oil — a thick, sticky substance. Read the story and see John Poole’s images at NPR.org.
