Not dead, nor yet a zombie
Sun 6 September 2009 at 19:07 | Comments (2) | About Me, Politics, Who can categorise everything?
[insert typical "sorry I don't blog here more often" paragraph] The fact of the matter is that I am still...Category archive: Politics 
What to Name the War?
Thu 11 January 2007 at 21:49 | Comments (3) | Politics, Sonnets
I wrote this in November, on a thread about what to call the war. It's actually the second -- the...September 11, a sonnet
Mon 8 January 2007 at 21:28 | Comments (5) | Personal, Politics, Sonnets
This was written on Bonfire Night, 2006. I watched the fireworks with the children, then came inside to warm up...Citizen Sutherland
Mon 13 February 2006 at 17:32 | Comments (4) | Personal, Politics
I have lived in the United Kingdom for 12 1/2 years now, nearly all of my adult life. I have,...Civil Partnerships
So today the new Civil Parterships Act comes into effect in the UK. The Beeb calls them Gay Weddings, but...Doomed to Repeat It
Lessons from history: the Titanic Engineering can't prevent disasters. All it can do is make them less likely and make...We hold fast...
...to what is important. The more they hit us, the more they try to frighten us, the tighter we hold...I Grow Old, I Grow Old...
...I've joined the Establishment. Yesterday (July 4th) was the day we were all worried about in Edinburgh, the day the...Can This Marriage Be Saved?
Mon 8 November 2004 at 12:08 | Comments off | Politics
Martin and I have been married for 11 years and some months, most of our adult lives. Like any couple, we have moments of severe dissonance, when we look at one another and see strangers, or even enemies. Sometimes it's a decision one of us makes, sometimes it's disciplining the kids, sometimes it's the way money is spent or time allocated. It can affect our relationship with the outside world, or be a purely internal disagreement.
Why?
Thu 4 November 2004 at 11:42 | Comments off | Politics
Being an American abroad can be difficult sometimes. There's so much to defend, to explain, to demystify. Now is certainly one of those times; I spent a lot of yesterday failing in my earnest desire to discuss anything but the election.
Bookbinding Meets Politics
Mon 31 May 2004 at 00:05 | Comments off | Bookbinding, Politics
As part of my desire to encourage a little more civility in American politics, I have decided to give a gift to someone whose politics I disagree with. Specifically, I'm sending a handbound copy of the Constitution to President George W. Bush.
Settle, Petals
Fri 9 April 2004 at 22:43 | Comments off | Politics
Sing to me, Goddess, of the rage of Achilles, Pelias' son.Menin. Rage. Homer opens the Iliad as I'd like to open this blog entry, but smooth English grammar doesn't permit it. But rage, anger, wrath, fury, is what I want to talk about here.
I'm American, but I've lived in the UK for over a decade. I've seen a way of conducting political (or religious, or philisophical) debate that most Americans don't see, and that makes me worry about my native country.
Where's the Black Squad when we need them?
Sun 22 February 2004 at 22:52 | Comments off | Politics, Testing
Q: What do weapons of mass destruction have to do with cot death?
A: In both areas, the "experts" evaluating the evidence and acting on their conclusions have caused enormous devastation. Then, after the fact, that evaluation has proven wrong.
Why? I have an insight that may be useful.
Read the whole entry for "Where's the Black Squad when we need them?"
Bad Man
Tue 10 June 2003 at 10:18 | Comments off | Politics
In the absence of evidence of weapons of mass destruction, the pro-war lobby has fallen back on Plan B to justify the war in Iraq: Saddam Hussein was a Bad Man. He did Bad Things to the people of Iraq. So we were justified in removing him. For short, I'll call this the Bad Man doctrine.
But is the Bad Man doctrine a sound basis for political or military action?