Like many others, I will be watching Sarah Palin’s speech with great interest tonight. With that event coming up, here are just a few bits and pieces of leftover punditry that I found lying around the house here. 1. The barrage that has been unleashed against her means that the left is in a deep …
Making Karl Rove Look Like a Piker
Just to keep things interesting, we now read this. Sarah Palin and her husband were at one time members of the Alaska Independence Party, a party that stands for secession from the US of A, among other things. This story just keeps getting better and better. Why that should be controversial, I surely don’t know. …
John Knox and Sarah Palin
One quick niggling contextualizing comment off to the side. John Knox’s famous missive, The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women, has been mentioned a couple times in the comments of this discussion about Sarah Palin. John Knox wrote the booklet, aiming it at Bloody Mary, a vicious persecutor of the …
And Another Thing . . .
Since I posted the cons and pros post below, I found out about the out-of-wedlock pregnancy of Sarah Palin’s teenaged daughter. Some of the things I wrote apply to this in principle (Con #1 and Pro #3), but please allow just a few quick takes on this new twist. Obviously, there will have to be …
Cons and Pros on Palin
I am continuing in the mode of thinking out loud about all of this. I have appreciated many of the comments, pro and con, for the most part, and so please continue the discussion. It would probably be good, though, to discontinue passing on the bat crap “research” that the desperate left is coming up …
Kinda Spooky When You Think About It
Sorry for the delay in getting to this issue. Yesterday was wall-to-wall with events, and since Palin was a surprise pick, I had to get up to speed. I want to divide my comments up into three categories — a statement of the problem as it was, some punditry, and some personal observations and reactions …
Pomosexuality
Boundaries are an essential element in any art, but it does not follow from this that if the boundaries are honored and respected, the great art will necessarily follow. A lot of pedestrian poetry has been written within the confines of the traditional forms. Sexual boundaries follow the same kind of pattern. The one true …
Mile High Hecatombs
Obama is going to give his acceptance speech from a stage manufactured to look like an ancient Greek temple. Tune in right before they sacrifice the heifers!
Homo Pomo in Slowmo
As I look at the state of public discourse today, and the Church’s contribution to it, I often feel like somebody stuffed me into a Walker Percy novel, and then somebody else screwed the lid on. It is as though everybody has agreed to do a cute little two step, closer and closer to the …
Marshmallow Clouds, Puffy Rainbows, and Unicorns
Well, the Obaminator has chosen Joe Biden to be his running mate and, as I see it from here, the wheels continue to come off the Obama campaign. The once robust coalition of marshmallow clouds, puffy rainbows, and unicorns is starting wear a little thin. At least around here. I continue to believe that the …