This is another Mommyland dream, but one where Mom makes a late appearance and is only tangential to the bulk of the dream ( Read more... )

A week after the elections for president and my reaction to it is a lot like it was the morning after 9/11, "Why do they hate us?" By "us", I mean the liberal consensus (the word, "establishment" no longer being safe to use) that has ruled this country almost from its beginning, a consensus that straddled whatever party was in power, that education ( Read more... )

Great as it would be to hear Obama speak this weeekend, my sincerest hunch is that the only way will be to already be there or watch the webcast. I dreamt last night that I drove up to Middletown, or someplace very like it; a place of strip malls and bungalow homes. Lots of perpendicular parking ( Read more... )