The Good News

While I was cleaning up the kitchen after dinner tonight, I noticed that no one had yet flipped the bush countdown calendar (thanks, Uncle Bob!) over from December. When I did it, I got a little thrill, because we're down to the last page!!!! It's almost over, folks! Our long national nightmare is finally drawing to a close! Pinch me!!!!!

West Wing Quote

If our job teaches us anything, it's that we don't know what the next President's gonna face. And if we choose someone with vision, someone with guts, someone with gravitas, who's connected to other people's lives, and cares about making them better... if we choose someone to inspire us, then we'll be able to face what comes our way and achieve things... we can't imagine yet.

-- Toby Zeigler

(Surely, we can improve on the current, criminally unimaginative, adminstration...)

Food for Thought

Food for thought is just about the only food I've had today. G-Dog and I have both been felled by the stomach virus that's been traveling around Chattanooga in the past week or two. No food, no energy. What's a body to do? Well, around here, the answer is to crawl under a blanket and turn on a
West Wing marathon. We did the first season. And around about the episode "Take this Sabbath Day", I ran across this:

Toby: The Torah doesn't prohibit capital punishment.
Rabbi: No.
Toby: It says, 'An eye for an eye'.
Rabbi: You know what it also says? It says a rebellious child can be brought to the city gates and stoned to death. It says homosexuality is an abomination and punishable by death. It says men can be polygamous and slavery is acceptable. For all I know, that thinking reflected the best wisdom of its time, but it's just plain wrong by any modern standard. Society has a right to protect itself, but it doesn't have a right to be vengeful. It has a right to punish, but it doesn't have to kill.

That's all I'm sayin'...