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In strategizing with his fellow (and I do mean “fellow”) members of Journolist, Spencer Ackerman, then of the Nation, was arguing with the group against rising to the bait and either defending or criticizing Jeremiah Wright. He said:
“If the right forces us all to either defend Wright or tear him down, no matter what we [...]

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Are those guys White Dude enough for ya, or what!? I haven’t seen the original videos or the uncut videos of Sherrod’s speech, so I don’t know what my opinion is of that matter yet, but I do know that Violet is 100% correct about the muck and mire that is the left-wing Blogger Boyz’ [...]

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Thank you to Dances and TT for posting the preceding and prompting so many Pumas to stop in and leave such heart-lifting messages. I hope you don’t mind that I plan to mine the comments for material to use at the memorial service on Wednesday. Honestly, there are beautiful things posted there.
I also want to [...]

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Sea Fever
I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,
And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea’s face, and a grey dawn breaking.
I must down [...]

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Back on the road this morning. Heading up to the Great Metro West and a holiday weekend heat wave — wahoo! Please continue to post links and ideas here between trips from the hammock to the pitcher of spiked lemonade chilling in the fridge.

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Hitting the road this morning for Charlottesville. We’ll be traveling through NYC, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and West Virginia before we get to the Shanendoah Valley, hopefully before sunset tonight. Picking up on the theme from yesterday, what do you think the the future looks like from where you are? The painting above is of a “new [...]

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Nope, didn’t die. But rather than brush it off with a breezy comment, I’ll tell you that I’ve been busy with a hundred little things and a few big ones. Our two older daughters are leaving for college and boarding school in a few months, and partly as a result of that we are significantly [...]

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Sorry about that! This is an open thread while I get my bearings back. Which, knowing me, might take some time!

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Gojoyknocks is right. We’ve been talking about depression, among other things, and she mentioned that she prefers the word “melancholy” over “depression” because it rolls more trippingly off the tongue. To be sure, Gojoy’s comments are always more than they seem and this is one of her most mind-blowing examples. I haven’t posted in a [...]

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