Acronym Alert – TDFT

Which stands for These Dire Financial Times.

If Caroline Kennedy wants to be a politician…

…she’d better find her voice. Her replies to questions from the NY Times were all in the third person. “Caroline belives…”  “Caroline is a strong supporter of…”  Why aren’t these statements in the first person?  “I believe…” “I support…”.  Connecting, inspiring and leading people can’t be staffed out.

On Rick Warren delivering the Inaugural Innovation

What would Odetta say?

Now that Bush has become Herbert Hoover…

…we can only hope that Barack Obama is the new Franklin Roosevelt. And that this great depression recession doesn’t end like the last one.

Blagojevich’s Indictment – the silver lining

1) It takes  Dianne Wilkerson & Chuck Turner off the front page.

2) Finally, a political sandal that you can discuss with your kids without having to talk about oral sex, escort services or how to behave in a public rest room.

The difference between a pit bull and a hockey mom

If the difference between a pit bull and a hockey mom is lipstick, then we may find comfort in knowing how much the transformation costs.

Diatribe? No, Diorama!

Is there a pedagogical purpose to decorating the inside of a shoe box, or this a test to see if Mom can find tape and construction paper at 7:00 on a Sunday night?

Sarah Palin – How does she do it?

Mother of five, governor, marathon runner, float plane pilot …and I’m not asking out of some anti-feminist feeling implies that women can’t “have it all”.  I’m asking because I want to know how does she do it?  I mean, we only have two kids, and getting to the gym twice a week, and a political function once a month is a struggle. Are the kids socks color coded?  Frozen dinners the norm?  Does the Palin family use Goggle calendar like I wish we could manage to do?

Same-Sex Families Don’t Count?

Same-sex couples who are legally married will not be counted as families in the 2010 Census.  Because the federal government doesn’t recognize same-sex marriages, the Census Bureau will count the thousands of gay and lesbian couples who mailed in their box tops and got offical marriage certificates as “unmarried partners.”

My wife and I have been together for 25 years.  We’re married (and a have piece of paper to prove it). We have two children (and have cheese stick wrapers in front of the t.v. set to prove it).  We are a family (and have the love to prove it).  What a rotten shame that we have to keep proving it.

To the Obama Campagin Regarding The New Yorker Cover…

1) It’s The New Yorker…a sophisticated humor magazine.

2) Lincoln was known for his sense of humor, his droll wit and his ability not to take himself too seriously.