Our Founding Fathers didn’t go far enough ……..
Annette | June 30, 2008
A caption for this picture?
Annette | June 23, 2008
“I’m putting together a new team:
the Washington Globefuckers.”
Talking with Larry……..
Annette | June 23, 2008
We were exchanging thoughts on the passing of George Carlin, and I told him this:
“When my Sardinian step-grandfather died, one of the things I got was his old Larousse. He’d walked across France to get to La Rochelle to be able to get on a boat to get to America. Turn of the [...]
Flying cross-country……………
Annette | June 23, 2008
We were both seated in first-class, flying from Los Angeles to New York. Across the aisle from each other, we smiled reciprocal smiles. Then he asked me if NY was home, and I said “No, I’m going for work. But I live in Virginia most of the time. You?” He said, [...]
A campaign of hope, indeed
Annette | June 21, 2008
Guess what?
Annette | June 20, 2008
How change takes place ………
Annette | June 18, 2008
Yizkor – We Remember
Annette | June 16, 2008
It’s not Yom Kippur, not even close, but this prayer, its origins dating back to the commemoration of Jewish communities wiped out by anti-Semitic mobs during the Crusades, is singularly appropriate on a day that I learned of the deaths of two men from long ago in my life. I was so young, they [...]
Death is always proud …….
Annette | June 14, 2008
That’s the thing about death. It happens so finally. It is unforgiving. No matter how you entreat it for one more day, one more hour, one more minute, one more kiss, it ignores you and does as it pleases, and what it does will never please you.
You bow your head down to [...]
Unbelievable
Annette | June 13, 2008
A huge tornado funnel cloud touches down in Orchard, Iowa, Tuesday, June 10, 2008 at 9:04 p.m. The Globe Gazette and Mitchell County Press News reported that Lori Mehmen of Orchard, took the photo from outside her front door. Mehmen said the funnel cloud came near the ground and then went back up into the [...]
He was good, he was great, he was mortal
Annette | June 13, 2008
We recognized each other, Jesuit-trained lawyers. I only met him once, but he was every bit the big, smart, charming, and irresistible Irishman. The man I was with, also a journalist, knew him better, and we shared some time together before the main event started in a big Washington hotel. You couldn’t [...]
My great Commonwealth …….
Annette | June 12, 2008
…….. and my new license plate.
It’s his best argument ………
Annette | June 12, 2008
…….. and still it fails. Just as he does.
Today is a great day in American history …….
Annette | June 12, 2008
On a day when our country is just beginning to lift up its head in hopeful watchfulness, as Barack Obama begins his quest for victory in the general election in November, the Supreme Court of the United States (hereinafter known as “The Supremes”) came down with a decision that set the warmongering profiteer murderers in [...]
It doesn’t get more precious than this……….
Annette | June 10, 2008
June 9, 1954
Annette | June 9, 2008
Senator McCarthy: Mr. Chairman, may I say that Mr. Welch talks about this being cruel and reckless. He was just baiting. He has been baiting Mr. Cohn here for hours, requesting that Mr. Cohn before sundown get out of any department of the government anyone who is serving the Communist cause. Now, I just give [...]
His dream came true …….
Annette | June 8, 2008
George W. Bush, lying murderer ……..
Annette | June 8, 2008
A conversation overheard………
Annette | June 7, 2008
…… between two people who love each other, a man and a woman, not lovers, but the best of friends for many years:
He said, “Pleasure, pain, what’s the difference? Do you know? I don’t.”
She said, “Is there one? I gave up on pleasure a long time ago, finding out that it’s nothing [...]
Oh, Hillary, shut up and go away ……..
Annette | June 7, 2008
Oh, Hillary, Hillary, when will you get your head around reality and quit with the lower-middle-class schmoozing? You’re not one of them, you never were, and when you begin your concession (finally!) speech with a line about a father and mother holding up their small children at one of her rallies and saying to [...]
