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Vancouverite; music-lover; small-time foodie; some kind of news/politics junkie; new wife!! You will often find me at a computer or peering into my iPhone.
The name of the blog comes from the song "Reckoner" by Radiohead. I've seen them in concert nine times in five countries, which is really negligible by the standards of some of my friends.
Tag Archives: Election 2008
Will you stop winking?!
Every time she ascends a podium to read the web of lies and misleading statements off the teleprompter… Ha, ha! I said Thanks but no thanks! wink I saw a human footprint in a dinosaur fossil! wink No earmarks! wink … Continue reading
Another winner from Maureen Dowd
In the Times: worlds collide and Obama meets with Jed Bartlet. Echoing some things I said a few posts back.
John McCain
A subject I’ve largely avoided. I was reading what David Foster Wallace had written in Rolling Stone about John McCain in 2000, and he seems to have had a pretty good opinion of the man as a man. A lot … Continue reading
Hockey Mom, Reformer, Machiavellian Nepotist. You know, the usual.
First in-depth article by the NYT. Thank you. Now my visceral mistrust has some concrete reasons to latch on to.
Points to ponder.
I have had a couple of hmmmm moments today, or of late. Saw some of the John McCain bio on CNN, largely softball, although it made several unflattering points. What creeped me out the most, though (OH and creep/creepy/creeped are … Continue reading
OK, OK, OK
Mud mud mud. Fake mud, since there isn’t a lot of real mud to throw around. Lies. Shrill. Yes, I agree. It’s an unfortunate physiological fact that Gov. Palin has a nasal and shrill speaking voice. Edie McClurg redux. I … Continue reading
Why is it
…that a country which prides itself on having some of the greatest educational institutions in the world, whose universities are a magnet for the best and brightest all over the planet, takes such perverse pleasure in nominating (and sometimes electing) … Continue reading
Well OK.
The thing I’ve noticed about 95% of the pundits in my relatively-infrequent bouts of CNN-watching is that they listen to each other to a point, but don’t tend to actually answer the given question or respond to the point made, … Continue reading
Trig?
Is that short for Trigonometry? Triglycerides? Trigger? (and if so, the gun or the horse?) First son is named Track? Bristol (Raceway? presumably not intended as a reference to the British slang for, um, breasts), Willow, and (Rowdy Roddy? OK, … Continue reading
