Politics from a moderate-leftie in a U.S. now proudly moderate-left! http://www.samueljohnson.com/blog/ http://www.samueljohnson.com/blog/parchives/090706.html Sarah Palin's decision to resign from governor should be characterized with the real verb: she is quitting. She is a quitter, and along with that goes the territory of the aphorism about what quitters win. http://www.samueljohnson.com/blog/archives/0907a.html#5a http://www.samueljohnson.com/blog/parchives/090705.html Why the American Revolution matters (not sure anyone was saying it didn't, though...) http://www.samueljohnson.com/blog/archives/0907a.html#3c A signer of the Declaration of Independence. http://www.samueljohnson.com/blog/parchives/090704.html I see how you're stepping down from being governor of the Upper One, and it is just a very gamey thing you've done, showin' those haters http://www.samueljohnson.com/blog/archives/0907a.html#3b One of the motifs running through Pierce's Idiot America is the rejection of Darwin, as manifested in Ben Stein comparing Charles Darwin to Adolf Hitler (yes), as well as the Creation Museum in Kentucky, with its animatronix dinosaurs wearing saddles. Well, some paleontologists were in town for a convention, and decided to pop by. "This bothers me as a scientist and as a Christian, because it's just as much a distortion and misrepresentation of Christianity as it is of science," said one. http://www.samueljohnson.com/blog/archives/0907a.html#3a http://www.samueljohnson.com/blog/parchives/090703.html Normally Macy's launches its fireworks display in the East River, which makes sense if the goal is to be NYC-centric. But this year they're in the Hudson, on the "other" side of Manhattan, and http://www.samueljohnson.com/blog/archives/0907a.html#1c ...and the Carroll Street Bridge. http://www.samueljohnson.com/blog/parchives/090702.html To prove no financial improprieties regarding state funds and his mistress, he had promised the press a look at his finances, but is now backing off that pledge. http://www.samueljohnson.com/blog/archives/0907a.html#1b