Piepiepie and I saw this shirt at a local G*p store. We’re trying to decide if they are trying to be ironic, playing on GeeDubya’s “Is our children learning” quote.

Let me try to answer the comment that Ipsissimus left recently. She asked “I am very curious what Tolle says about people having dreams. Does he not want that because it is a future-driven thing? ”
Here are a collection of quotes that may (or may not) help.
From The Power of Now, page [...]

Both Ipsissimus and MandoMama have complimentary posts on their blogs today. Much food for thought. About careers or lack thereof, about dreams, about time, about family, about life. What makes a life? What’s the difference between a career and a job? How do you balance your dreams with your circumstances? [...]

Chaitén volcano in Chile, from National Geographic
h/t to Changing Places

I was a delegate at today’s Ohio Democratic Party State Convention. It was my first convention. I didn’t get to do anything exciting like cast a vote to withdraw the party endorsement from Marc Dann, but still, it was interesting.

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A new movie starring John Cusack. Makes me want to watch Grosse Pointe Blank!

That’s the title of a post about Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann at Talking Points Memo, one of the national political blogs that I read regularly.
An apt description. Once the report was released, suddenly he became contrite and apologetic. I messed up, he said. I didn’t know how to make it stop, [...]

It feels like the whole world is crazy. I feel like I am in the the eye of a hurricane. I’m watching the craziness swirl around me. New crazy, old crazy, echoes of crazy.
Watching the possibility of my state Democratic party being taken down by an emotionally-unstable twenty-something woman, by men who [...]

To paraphrase Dubya from earlier this week, “the price of gas wouldn’t be this high if y’all would just let me drill for oil in Alaska.”
Apparently OPEC’s energy minister (wow, weird terminology yet somehow appropriate?) begs to differ.
“Everything is possible … depending on economic circumstances and the situation of the tumbling dollar,” Abdullah [...]