Ragged Clown

Liberal seems to mean so many different things to different people that it doesn’t seem to mean anything at all

I promised myself I wouldn’t write about politics but…

I have read plenty of commentary about the significance of Obama’s election but none have resonated the way this did. Obama’s idea, put simply, was that America can be better than it has been. It can reach beyond post-9/11 anger and fear to embody once more what the world still craves from the American idea: […]

The meme travelling through blogs from Scott Adam’s to Andrew Sullivan’s this week is that the high cost of oil proves that the war in Iraq was not about oil. The proof goes something like this That first step is a doozy. I don’t believe that the US invaded Iraq for any single reason and […]

I find it frustrating that, in the US, the two party system is so firmly entrenched that other voices are only reluctantly heard and then only every four years. It leads to unholy alliances such as the one between the theocon and neocon and pro-business sections of the Republican party. It also means that the […]