I don’t watch cable news, only C Span and Jim Lehrer and Frontline - but I love it when they have Rachel on the Jim Lehrer News Hour - she is fantastic, non sensationalistic and I think she’s pretty centrist in her perspectives -

though I have happily drunk the Obama Kool-Aid it’s important that journalists do not and have the ethical responsibility to tell us what is going on in the world and to keep their personal opinions to the coffee shop and bars…

deber B

That is what is so scary about Beck is that millions of people do watch so he should be a responsible journalist and take his fact checking more seriously and not play to the people - just because millions watch, doesn’t make it right, same goes for Rush

 I’m not saying people are stupid, but generally people want to believe what they watch, read or hear on the radio and journalists need to have the integrity to not fail them

It’s a sad testament to the failing of the Information Age, that we really are not better informed, only more bombarded with "stuff" that either doesn’t matter or just isn’t true

I watch C-Span now so I can hear the whole speech and then figure it out myself

I haven’t read the particulars yet, but I will - the concept, though, is a little odd…

Lead is Motivator

Advisor is supporting role

I think this is dead on - I am a planning director for a town so I have to listen, advise, lead and take direction all at the same time

good test!

excellent observation!

I do think there are people that really and truly just don’t want healthcare to change or disagree on some other policy being proposed because they simply do not agree - I am friends with a few people that feel this way that are not racist at all - the problem is they are drowned out by the crazy folks who are just angry and frankly, a little creepy - some of these types are even elected to Congress, more creepiness - I guess the media is partly to blame because they will often only show the loud and belligerent and don’t often showcase the calm reserve types and the more articulate people who disagree with the plan and can clearly explain why - I would like to hear what they have to say but they get drowned out by the angry mobs with pitchforks

I think when there is radical change being introduced, our failings and weaknesses come out as our vulnerabilities take over

Changes to how we do healthcare is really akin to a revolution, no matter if you support it or otherwise, a 180 degree turn still throws people off balance - so we have to expect this

Racist tendencies, otherwise suppressed, will come out when fear and anger rise over logic and careful analysis

It’s sad (and scary) but it’s the same human response  when people are fearful or feel vulnerable and "fundamentalism" takes over - conjuring up "getting back to fundamentals" comes out when people are uncomfortable, vulnerable or fearful and we see how well that goes every day (not)

on a lighter note, though this is hardly light, and on a smaller scale, we often see the stress, change and vulnerabilities within ourselves when we see the adage "weddings and funerals bring out the best and the worst in people"  play out in our own lives

I am not condoning what is being said out there - I fear those angry protesters more than I fear the change of the healthcare system by far - but it will help us address the situation if we see it on its face, the changes we are seeking (and need to happen) are revolutionary and a revolt needs to be expected

I have drunk the Obama Kool-Aid so I do have faith that his plan is better than what we have now - it will not be perfect, but what we have now is horrific so anything is better than this

I wish you or your brother could buy the house and live there!

I really wish one of the 3 of us could have moved into my mother’s childhood home that my unmarried aunt lived in until she died but it sold and I still miss it almost 11 years later…that was the house of holidays and barbeques for us - it’s hard, a mourning process occurs as if a family member had passed…

why does a threesome have to be two women and one guy - don’t we deserve two men?  I don’t know of any guy that deserves two women; however wonderful they may be…

I agree with all of the above comments on this horror and I can’t help but wonder how many others there are out there that are locked in a basement, closet or in a shed?  Mind boggling! 

Parole should mean they get to come in to your house and inspect your property - not a phone call made on a cell phone from who knows where or a stop in to the parole officer’s office

I would ask her when is her next movie?

The Burning Tree in Otter Creek, Maine

thank you for sharing these!

I can’t even watch that show, Mad Men -

I don’t necessarily think that the older a women gets, the less she is able to read what other’s think of her, I think it’s more of a generational "thing" whereby most women in their 50’s had to fight their way to where they are in a different way than those of us in our 40’s and most definitely women younger than I - they are rightfully exhausted!

think about it, a women in her 50’s entered the workplace 30 years ago (1979), when women were still asked in interviews if they planned on marrying and having children - and they endured far worse than this and survived and flourished - in the 80’s, women had to be in overdrive to get a position anything equal to her male peers -these were the women who broke into the boy’s club for those of us who came in to the workplace during the late 80’s- so if they are now under valuing themselves, it’s understandable, given the climate of their entire career up to this point

I am confident, watching my young  interns and entry level  employees, that this is changing - that they value you for your work and not whether you are male or female and hopefully they will turn the mirror realistically on themselves when they get into management positions

 remember that a revolution takes generations

I will say that I continue to fight the administrative professionals who think I should be doing my own administration - let’s take a look at my hourly rate, sweetheart, that’s one expensive copy I just made…