Word: fatefulness
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...pitied or feared or stayed away from? I pity Helene. I see someone who most definitely grew up with a mother like herself. The cycle wasn't broken so here she is, a product of her upbringing. The same fate will most likely happen to her child. But to remove such a mother doesn't fix the bigger problem. The neighborhood is most likely full of similar stories. So how do you break the cycle on the bigger social scale? That's what I think of when I see Helene. I also fear because she could easily kick...
...parts of the world. But perhaps in politics it is too much to ask for process and outcome, discourse and conclusion, to be equally satisfactory in the same timeframe. We might instead enjoy this messy, ragged season for what it is - an exuberant display of the idea that the fate of nations can be entrusted to those who live within them. Of late, it has been breathtakingly easy to list all the things that the U.S. does wrong. This year's presidential campaign is not one of them...
...called eco-anxiety - free-form worry triggered by concerns about the worsening fate of the planet - and if you suffer from it, you might want to give Lester Brown's new book, Plan B 3.0, a pass. Brown - the president of the Earth Policy Institute, a Washington-based environmental think tank - paints a comprehensive and depressing picture of the planet, with ream after ream of dire statistics. Here's just a handful: Arctic summer sea ice shrinkage increased by 9.1% a decade between 1979 and 2006, and this year an area of ice almost twice the size of Britain melted...
...ever claimed that the American presidential election process makes any sense. There is no good reason that about 100,000 voters in a Midwest state of 3 million should determine the fate of the Republican Party on a frozen night in January. There is no good reason that two candidates, Romney and Huckabee, should be forced to compete on such an unequal footing when it comes to campaign resources. But politics is rarely about fairness or logic...
...simple fact remains: The outcome in Iowa may very well determine Huckabee's fate as a presidential candidate. With a first place showing, he will fly out of Des Moines tonight as a political golden boy, who beat the odds by taking down the massive political machine of Mitt Romney, without any real money or organization...