“… our heads full of lan­guage like buck­ets of min­nows stand­ing in the moon­light on a dock…”

“… our heads full of lan­guage like buck­ets of min­nows stand­ing in the moon­light on a dock…”

“It’s been three weeks and it will cer­tainly be many more before this is over. The Texas Guard is rolling out. Clean up crews and tow trucks rat­tle down the streets. Chain­saws replace gen­er­a­tors. But still, the silence is deaf­en­ing. Seri­ously deaf­en­ing. As if no one is pay­ing any atten­tion at all.”

“The obscen­ity of John McCain is in his self­ish will­ing­ness to reignite a cul­ture war by attempt­ing to pro­vide some­one like Sarah Palin entree to an office that she should only see from the other side of the vel­vet rope on the White House tour.”