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Sachs' reference to our current state of "peacetime" is a slap in the face of every brave serviceman and -woman deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. In the story's illustration, a man doesn't want to hear that military spending is up. Why should it be? It's not like there...
Distrust of government is as old as the Republic. In fact, it's in some ways the basis of the Republic; the framers took great pains to dilute and spread out the powers of the central government. They did not want an overweening concentration of power at the center of our national life. At the same time, they arrived at those checks and balances through a spirit of compromise--something that's notably absent today in Washington. On the final day of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, Benjamin Franklin noted that every member should "doubt a little...
What does it mean to me? I heard it nicely phrased earlier today. You want to give people dignity and respect, and you want to receive...
...care about our long line of people. Whenever I asked my grandparents where their parents were from, they'd all launch into the same speech about how Poland and Russia switched borders a lot. The only thing I got from that speech was that people do not want to admit they're Polish. Also, that making a big deal about your genealogy isn't for Jews; it's for Wasps and Southerners and Democrats and other groups whose past is brighter than their future...
This is when I mentioned to Kudrow that I've met one family member who is into genealogy: my cousin Carol. It was at my mom's second wedding, and Carol wanted birthplaces and dates for this giant book she'd brought. Let's just say that you shouldn't ask someone to fill out a survey when they're at their mom's second wedding unless it's about how many vodka sodas they want...