For my eight loyal readers I’d like to report where this blog is headed.
This blog was born over two years ago prior to my quixotic race against Congressman Jim Oberstar. I began using this as a vehical to point out deficiencies in Oberstar. When I was talked into running for the School Board last year I used it to point out flaws in the Red Plan – the Duluth School Board’s floolishly extravagant building plan. Lately its been all Red Plan all the time. That won’t continue. I’ll still dwell heavily on the Red Plan. I expect it to collapse of its own weight and this blog will continue to pile on.
Between causes the blog has sat idle. That could happen again but if it does I’ll still make additions to my even older website www.snowbizz.com.
From its inception I put in some personal information making this something of a personal diary. I’ll resume that. Eleanor Roosevelt did some of this too when she wrote a column for the daily papers back during FDR’s Administration.
I also included silly things I ran accross on the Internet. The only blog I read avidly, The Daily Dish, by Andrew Sullivan often puts such things in. He calls them “mental health breaks” I call them “hoots.” By the way I will likely repost interesting things I find on his blog as well as other interesting things I run across.
The next post will be an interesting one that my argumentative friend Vic sent me today. We’re lining up to take different sides on the Presidential race.
I’ve long thought that the best Presidential race would be a matchup between Senator’s McCain, who I campaigned for in 2000, and Barack Obama. I’m planning on voting for Obama this year for a myriad of reasons but Robert Samuelson’s commentary is a cautionary one well worth reading. Samuelson is Newsweek Magazine’s economics reporter and I’ve read him religiously for ages.
Samuelson makes the sad and inevitable point that no one can run successfully for President without making debilitating promises. Our rose tinted memories of past Presidents must be tempered with the knowledge that the best ones all went through periods of public disapproval.
