Friday, January 28, 2011

An Unserious Speech...

Peggy Noonan on Obama's State of the Union Speech - her lead:
It is a strange and confounding thing about this White House that the moment you finally think they have their act together—the moment they get in the groove and start to demonstrate that they do have some understanding of our country—they take the very next opportunity to prove anew that they do not have their act together, and are not in the groove. It's almost magical.

The State of the Union speech was not centrist, as it should have been, but merely mushy, and barely relevant. It wasted a perfectly good analogy—America is in a Sputnik moment—by following it with narrow, redundant and essentially meaningless initiatives. Rhetorically the speech lay there like a lox, as if the document itself knew it was dishonest, felt embarrassed, and wanted to curl up quietly in a corner of the podium and hide. But the president insisted on reading it.
What she said.

Read the whole thing...

Mac Software Recommendations...

Quite a few things on this list that are new to me, and sound interesting...

Happy Music, Happy Feet...

Via my cousin Mike D.:



I was panting myself by the time they were finished...

She Lives Way Down the Street!

Very funny sermon, via my mom: