Clip: Check out this video called Mr. Jefferson. I can't quite bring myself to post it because it ends with some Reagan adulation which I cannot abide. Regular reader Roberta, who is holding down the fort in Ohio, forwarded it. We both agree it is good until the Reagan bit. Thanks Roberta.
Fiddlin:This post over at Zombie's place is a few weeks old (I am lame with the schedule a bit too often...so sorry) but it is still a good one. He's around here a lot and always willing to knock some heads - a quality I admire in blog land (though not so much in public). He is to the Right of me on most things - like many of the most consistent commenters here (libs, speak up!) - but I like having an audience in unexpected places.... Thanks Zombie - who like Bill C, is from Arkansas.
T from SFO: T from the San Francico Bay Area sent me this piece about race from a conservative sight. Thanks T! It is a good read. As always, if YOU have anything to say about race and want it posted here I am at john@liberalrapture.com. In my estimation, we are at an impasse in the conversation because the Left is not saying anything to advance it. Conservatives, moderates and ex Dem PUMA types are breaking new ground by discussing the use of word "racist" as a scarlet letter to silence people. This is not the whole enchilada, but it is important. I have not seen or received any thing to rebut this. Or anything on the Left other than boilerplate whining and rehashed resentment-ology. I most certainly would like to see liberals break some new ground in this conversation.
Trey And Matt, I lubs you berry berry much. The always on it Kara, of Wyoming, knowing of my recent dalliance with libertarianism and my passionate love affair with South Park posted this interview with the South Park creators in the comments earlier. GAWD, I love these 2 men. It's embar us in.
Music: Stand by Me. A wonderful and moving version sent by Topher down Louisiana way... where you been , brother??? No comments in so long!!?? Love this version of this song - Thanks topher!
Chuckles the Clown: From 60 Minutes - "You're sitting here. And you're-you are laughing. You are laughing about some of these problems. Are people going to look at this and say, 'I mean, he's sitting there just making jokes about money-' How do you deal with-I mean: explain..." Kroft asked at one point. "Are you punch-drunk?" Kroft said. OBAMA, SHUT UP!!!
From the Left:The fact that we're no longer suffering under the worst President ever has drastically lowered our standards...we're willing to accept the leadership of a man who... seems to have very low regard for whether policies actually work or make sense. Read it all.
MUSIC: Mad World. The clip is a montage from Children of Men. As most of you know - I think this is one of the best, and thus far, the most important film of the decade. It has one of those simple, elegant premises that invites a story to make incisive statements without losing track of itself. What if human reproduction stopped? That "what if" allows the story tellers to explore the importance of real hope (not "obama" hope.), believing in a better future, and to hit on Western iconography- without forcing it. The "long take" in which war ravaged soldiers and shell shocked civilians hear a baby's cry for the first time in 20 years is stunning. Actually it is past stunning. It is silencing. And, yes, I very much believe, that the wanton destruction of the future to salvage the present that Mr. Bush engaged in - and now Mr. Obama is engaging in - makes this film all the more pertinent
