Okay, maybe it isn’t fair to blame the Tucson shootings on Sarah Palin’s cross-hairs map. Or the weapons-and-combat imagery in the campaign ads of Jesse Kelly, who tried to unseat Gabrielle Giffords in last year’s Congressional election.
Don’t get me wrong. I deplore the hateful rhetoric, the name-calling, the demonizing of anyone who sees things differently, that dominates our politics today. We could all stand to tone it down. But I’m not sure it would have made a difference in this case.
Monday, January 17, 2011
Saturday, January 1, 2011
A Decade Remembered
The 21st Century isn’t a new thing any more. As of today, we’re into its second decade. The first decade swooped in and took off again before we came to any real consensus on what to call it. The Aughties? The Naughties? The Zeroes?
Maybe it’s appropriate that we haven’t come up with a name. It’s been a pretty uncertain decade.
Maybe it’s appropriate that we haven’t come up with a name. It’s been a pretty uncertain decade.
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