This week, talk radio pundits, desperate to turn the conversation away from the success of the bin Laden mission, worked themselves into a faux lather over the Obamas inviting Common to appear at a White House poetry night. Thankfully, the Ghost of Sister Souljah Moments Past did not make an appearance at the event. Elsewhere, troubled marriages grabbed the headlines, with news of Arnold and Maria's separation, the Senate Ethics Committee's scathing report on John Ensign's sordid conduct, and thrice-wed Newt Gingrich's announcement that he was running for president. Meanwhile, joke writers all across America rejoiced with word of the extensive collection of porn found at Osama's Abbottabad compound (insert burka double entendre here). On a personal note, my youngest daughter officially says farewell to her teen years today -- Happy 20th birthday, Isabella!
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I hereby propose that HuffPo publish a daily Whazzup Power Point-style chart that lists important ongoing issues down the left-hand side of the chart, tracks these issues - either by evenly spaced dates or "last significant change" and would update readers regularly. (Even if you posted the words, "No new developments" in an appropriate box when nothing was happening, it would at least keep us all current and our collective eye on the ball.
For example, I haven't seen much written lately about our recently appointed super-regulator (Jean?) Warren. How's she doing? Anything new she's put in place (or is about to put in place?
If we were charting progress of financial reform measures, we'd already know.
And to add one more personal notes of various persons, I never heard of Common, and could not tell you the name of a single reality show.
Meanwhile the Republican Governors are destroying our Democracy in the States, while their Reps are Holding America Hostage as they continue to loot the Treasury of the United States on behalf
of their benefactors: the Boys from Brazil
Gas is costly here on the Central Coast of Cali and I haven't seen it above $4.40 for premium. It averages at least 15 cents less per gallon nationally.
Keep it real.
Wishing you and yours the best on her break through... I truely hope that you were able to teach her to look at life with boths eyes open, and a mind that won't settle for jsut what she hears from someone she trusts or stands up for. It has become a dog eat dog world, with to many people satisfied with being sheep.
As for this past week, It was pretty exciting. What has blown me away is how so many people are easily swayed when their emotions are manipulated. The people of America have become a one issue mess. Everyone has totally forgotten the past three presidencies, and how it was about the economy. It seems like everyone is just sitting back waiting for the freebies that are never going to arrive.
People have become so lazy, they refuse to research topics of ecenomic necesity, as long as their man feeds their emotional needs.
The only emotions that made this country as great as it was... was anger. The people were angry at the socialist / marxist government that was taking their earnings and goods and distributing them as they decided. Just as the people are upset that their tax dollars have been going to big oil. I just wish they saw all the other corps and special interest the president's stimulus money's gone too. If they truly researched it, and realized they have been lied too, we'd probably be looking at the makings of a revolution
But I can see what you are up against Arianna. When you do publish a serious article of importance that questions the ideas and philosophy behind US actions, it is ignored and overwhelmed by the extramarital affair of a sportsman or "Jennifer Aniston strips down". I read "most popular on Huffpost" as a flight to fantasy by the public. Denial and escape from the very real problems. A lot of people have already met the real problems, but they are in trailer parks, sleeping in cars, in prison or sleeping under bridges and may not have easy access to the internet.