Recently I bought The Assassin’s Cloak, a wonderful anthology of excerpts from a wide variety of published diaries and journals, organized by date. (So you can open it to, say, January 17 and read all the entries for that day, spanning hundreds of years.) I noticed that a large number of the excerpts mentioned political occurrences happening in the lives in the writers, and I thought, “I never write about the external world at large in my journal, I should do that more.”
So I sat down and wrote what I thought would be a short summary of my take on the current political scene in my diary.
It ended up going on for pages.
And I realized that I am so scared about what’s going on in the world today (and am such an inherent coward to begin with) that I would never, ever post any such thing on this page. Because, you know, they’re reading.
Paul O’Neill collaborated with Ron Suskind on The Price of Loyalty, and when asked, pre-publication, if he was worried about possible repercussions, he said something to the effect that he was rich, he wasn’t worried.
In the week since, Paul O’Neill has started backpedalling on his words something furious. He’s been misinterpreted. He’s not anti-Bush, in fact, he’s voting for Bush. Things are just great.
Paul O’Neill is a wealthy, respected man who’s had a long career.
You think you’re tough? Maybe not so much.
I know I’m not.
I will, however, point you to this: The Tom Paine State of the Union Scorecard, which you can use to judge the SOTU address coming up on Tuesday.
Must comment you on your links! Especially the left. I have been feeling a lack of leftist blogs in my life, and here they are! Amazing what you can find in someone’s sidebars when you actually look at them, lol!
Sarah
(who really needs to update her sidebars)
ACK! I *can* speak. That’s ‘compliment’, not ‘comment’.