Archive for February, 2008

Students at Stanford get a good egamication!

February 11, 2008

Regardless of how you feel about the candidates, this is a sad statement by a college student.   “She did a good job of conveying her mom’s message,” says Nicky Adamson, a student who saw Chelsea last month at Stanford University and ended up voting for Obama. “But the average college student can’t relate to her, because she seems so intellectual.” Now Chelsea was not talking to just any set of college students.  The last I heard Stanford was supposed to be a fairly good college.  I guess, it isn’t.  –  Does this mean Obama is nice and mediocre?  Sorry, I was someone in the White House who knows a little bit more than how to make change without using a calculator.    For the heck of it I’ve sent this note off to the president of Stanford.  Don’t really expect a meaningful response.

Sounds like a plan!

February 6, 2008

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed — and
hence clamorous to be led to safety — by menacing it with an endless
series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. -H.L. Mencken, writer, editor,
and critic (1880-1956)

A look back

February 5, 2008

Just spent a loverly 5 hours going over my photos from my Rt. 66 trip with a fellow Roadie.  It brought back some great memories.  Oh yes, next time we’ll do MO, as we barely got out of IL.  :-)

This makes sense!

February 5, 2008

The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the
pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly. -Ogden Nash, author
(1902-1971)