This morning’s Japan Times reprints a Washington Post article by Sally Quin titled “Pastor Rick’s Evolution.” In her lead paragraph she writes,
Barack Obama’s choice of Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration has been characterized as — at best — a giant blunder. But it might turn out to be just another canny move from […]

My computer here in Yokohama says 2:46 a.m, Wednesday, January 21, 2009. Barack Obama is now President of the United States! My eyes are damp, I’m feeling choked up. I haven’t heard a single line that will ring through history. I have heard a serious assessment of where the country finds itself and a sober […]

I just returned from two demonstrations this afternoon and evening down in Los Angeles, the first,  at the site of the 17 story Federal Building a few blocks from the UCLA campus brought out about 150-200 protesters at one of the country’s busiest intersections, received some media coverage from local stations, and, since Mike Farrell […]

We’re back. Still caught up in a whirl of private and family indulgence. Yellowstone in winter is awesome. Tromping through the snow around the geyser basins is serious exercise and the air is astonishingly fresh. Must be mellowing with age, but I actually enjoyed the company of Ruth’s brothers and their wives. The only sources […]

In just a few hours, Ruth and I will board a plane for the States. We will spend the night in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, then enter the information black hole known as Yellowstone National Park. At Yellowstone there is no Internet, no cell phone coverage, not even TV. It will be the first time that […]

Is it really so hard to understand Barack Obama’s choice of Rick Warren for the invocation? Consider the following, from the most recent Pew poll of religious identification in the USA.
A new study of more than 35,000 adult Americans by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life captures the depth and breadth of religious America […]

Who would have thought that I would be sitting at my computer watching greedily for Indiana and North Carolina to add themselves to the Blue. What was it so many of us said about not being able to close the deal? <Grin>

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Stop worrying for a beat about how many white folks are lying when they say they will vote for a “black” candidate, you know, the one McCain flacks are now calling “Hussein”… the Russians are holding sabre-rattling military exercises targeting Alaska, right in Governor Palin’s backyard and you’d think some opportunistic reporter or […]

The bailout bill has failed in the House. The Dow is now lower than it was at the start of George Bush’s first term. Ruth and I are OK. I pulled most of our savings out of the markets a couple of months ago. Our little business keeps poking along. Hope everyone else is ready […]