Daily Archives: October 3, 2008

William Blake’s “To Nobodaddy” (A Poem from His Notebook)

                      Why art thou silent & invisible Father of Jealousy Why dost thou hide thyself in clouds From every searching Eye   Why darkness & obscurity In all thy words … Continue reading

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“The Poet’s Eye in Fine Frenzy Rolling”: Shakespeare and the Origin of Religion

From William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream—Act 5, Scene 1 (Theseus speaking): Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact. … Continue reading

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The Sinking of the Titanic: Is This the McCain-Palin Campaign—or the American Economic System Under George Bush—or Both?

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Alex Koppelman’s Brilliant “Sarah Palin Debate Flowchart”: How Sarah Palin Survived Her 2008 VP Debate with Joe Biden

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“I Love the World”: A Four Year Old Draws a Picture of Barack Obama

My four year old knows I’m an admirer of Barack Obama, and so yesterday she drew me the above picture. My wife says that she was trying to decide whether to write over Barack’s head, “I like the world,” or “I … Continue reading

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Getting Comfy With the Idea of Calling Barack Obama “Mr. President”: Conservative Charles Krauthammer Calls Obama “a first class intellect” with “a first class temperament” and Thinks Obama’s on His Way to Victory Because of It

Money quote from Krauthammer’s Washington Post column today: Part of reassurance is intellectual. Like Palin, he’s a rookie, but in his 19 months on the national stage he has achieved fluency in areas in which he has no experience. In … Continue reading

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The Joe Biden v. Sarah Palin Debate in a Nutshell: A Serious Person v. an Unserious Person

The outcome of the VP debate seems pretty clear: Biden reassured voters that adults would be minding the “store” if the Obama-Biden ticket wins, and Palin did not assure voters that she is presidential timber. Palin’s folksy “aw shucks” and “golly-gee” … Continue reading

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