No time to comment as we’ve got a guest in town today, but I did want to pass along this link to Salon dotcom. It’ll take you to an article by Edward McClelland on the future prospects of Michigan. Here’s the headline:
With unemployment the worst in the nation, and the government on the verge of shutdown, it’s time for my home state to drive toward a new way of life.
Discuss.
[Thanks to Andrew and Kerri for sending in the link.]
Clementine and I had a nice talk about harpsichords this afternoon. We were listening to a piece of music on the radio and she said that it sounded like a piano. I told her that I thought that it was a harpsichord and then she started in with the interrogation – about 20 questions that I couldn’t answer. So, after dinner, we sat down in front of the computer and started researching the history of harpsichords. And, in the process, we found a very cool site run by someone at the University of Michigan that includes all kinds of audio recordings of various models of harpsichords and harpsichord-related instruments being played. Our favorite as of bedtime, was the Lautenwerk, which is a harpsichord with gut strings.
Watch and be amazed… Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi tells CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that she has absolutely no power to stop the war. She also says that she has no intention whatsoever of pursuing impeachment… Maybe I’m missing something, but it seems pretty clear to me that she doesn’t want to stop the war or get Bush out of power so long as she thinks these things can be used to beat the Republicans at the polling place. The truth is, she could both stop the war (by cutting off the funding) and begin impeachment proceedings, but she lacks the political will to do so. She’s afraid to go up against the Republicans who will invariably say that, by cutting funding, she’s putting American troops in harms way. And it’s an oversimplification, but let’s face it, Bush in the White House is good for fundraising… Don’t we deserve better leadership – leadership that’s more concerned with the constitution and the future of our country than in political gamesmanship? Ending the war and ending this administration is essential to the future of our democracy. I know there’s a risk that doing so might cost us the Presidency in ’08, but I think it’s a chance we have to take.
..I think nothing has higher priority than averting an attack on Iran, which I think will be accompanied by a further change in our way of governing here that in effect will convert us into what I would call a police state…
