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The President's Call for the Day

By Barth on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 10:08am |

Less than two years after taking office, with many criticizing the efforts undertaken to recover from the economic condition of the nation as it was when he took the oath of office, the President said:

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Hope

By Barth on Sat, 10/30/2010 - 3:46pm |

Fifty years ago this week, the people who present baseball to a grateful nation did an odd thing: The American League announced that the Washington Senators would move to Minneapolis-St. Paul, but that the league would add two new teams: one of which to be called the Washington Senators.

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Hope

By Barth on Sat, 10/30/2010 - 3:45pm |

Fifty years ago this week, the people who present baseball to a grateful nation did an odd thing:  The American League announced that the Washington Senators would move to Minneapolis-St. Paul, but that the league would add two new teams:  one of which to be called, the Washington Senators.

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Broken promises in a broken country

By Barth on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 3:40pm |

Everyday we have to listen to this garbage:

The stimulus didn't create jobs. The President should have concentrated on jobs before tackling health care. "Obamacare" means that the government will take over health care, tell you which doctors you can go to, and will destroy our freedom. The President is a socialist.

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Living with One Another

By Barth on Sat, 10/16/2010 - 6:28pm |

A friend's father died this week after a long, but still tragically shortened life. He was Roman Catholic which meant, as so often seems to be the case, the Jewish guy writing to you was in attendance to watch what, to these eyes and ears, continues to be a quite strange ritual.  Since I do not share the faith that makes those rituals meaningful, they still seem, even after seeing them so many times, quite odd in so many ways.

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In other News

By Barth on Sun, 10/10/2010 - 7:46pm |

Last week, it was "Winter."   This week's awesome, yet already dated, insights about things with barely any political import will simply reside here.

As I post this, I observe that you can take teams out of New York (the team now called "San Fransisco") and Boston ("Atlanta') but some things just seem to run to form anyway.

 

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When the "Tea Party" took over the GOP the first time

By Barth on Sat, 10/09/2010 - 3:04pm |

In the year the Republican Party nominated Senator Barry Goldwater as its presidential candidate, there was never any chance he could win.  The country was still reeling from the murder of its young, exciting president, and many people felt that his memory could best be honored by enacting the laws the late President had urged on the country.

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When the "Tea Party" took over the GOP the first time

By Barth on Sat, 10/09/2010 - 3:02pm |

In the year the Republican Party nominated Senator Barry Goldwater as its presidential candidate, there was never any chance he could win. . The country was still reeling from the murder of its young, exciting president, and many people felt that his memory could best be honored by enacting the laws the late President had urged on the country.

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Winter

By Barth on Sun, 10/03/2010 - 8:30pm |

As it is, by the way, it arrived only eight days earlier this year than it did last year, but it is here.

And there is no use in mourning its arrival. It is inevitable as the last actual Commissioner of Baseball has explained to us:


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Being There

By Barth on Sat, 10/02/2010 - 2:43pm |

As well described by cmaukonen the other day,there are things that cannot always be fully understood unless you lived through it. The unspeakably brilliant Jill Lepore explained to Rachel Maddow last night why that is not always so, and, frankly, why Barth the amateur historian is truly an amateur,but to have missed the Vietnam War period means that much of what passes for political thought these days must be confusing.

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