Tag Archives: Hypocrisy

Blind Allegiance, Part I

I’m only about halfway through Blind Allegiance. This is not normally the kind of book I read, but Jeanne Devon, who writes the Mudflats blog, co-wrote it, so of course I had to get it. It broke in the top … Continue reading

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Jane Eyre Part II: Repression, Regression, Tension and Release

(All quotes taken from the 1985 Penguin Classics edition)  “You have a very bad disposition,” said she, “and one to this day I feel impossible to understand; how for nine years you could be patient and quiescent  under any treatment, … Continue reading

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Yearbook Pix; a Rant

So here’s an Internet-spawned political flap, or mini-flap, I want to weigh in on.  Someone found a yearbook picture of Rachel Maddow, the MSNBC journalist and commentator, and put it on the Internet. I don’t know why the person felt … Continue reading

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Quote(s) of the Week

Oh, like you don’t know who it’s going to be about: “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” –Hunter S Thompson courtesy of Paul Begala on HuffiingtonPost (regarding Sarah Palin) “Fair or unfair—and I do think that it’s … Continue reading

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