Some readers may be unaware that, for a few years, I lived in Pennsylvania’s Amish country, a little to the east of Lancaster. My first year there, ten years ago now, I was excited. It was Halloween. There were kids on my road. Amish kids. Halloween! Two years ago, I told the story of thatContinue reading “On an Amish Halloween”
Daily Archives: October 31, 2009
On the Fissures in the Republican Party
If you’re any sort of political junkie, today has been endlessly fascinating. In upstate New York, a bizarre 3-way special election campaign to fill a House of Representatives seat has been waged. The Democratic Party put up Bill Owens, the Republican Party put up Dede Scozzafava. One of New York’s minor parties, the Conservative Party,Continue reading “On the Fissures in the Republican Party”
On the Consumption of Cashews
This week just past was a week of Mondays. Nothing but Mondays. Even Friday, which started out like a Friday, ended on a Mondayesque note. One contributing factor? On one of the Mondays this week, I ate some cashews. I needed a mid-morning snack. I went to the vending machine, I saw a packet ofContinue reading “On the Consumption of Cashews”
On Reading Republicans
Recently, for Sooper-Sekrit reasons, I have been following the post-Senate career of Rick Santorum, the former Senator from Pennsylvania (though he didn’t really live there). This has meant, for instance, reading Santorum’s newspaper column for the Philly Inquirer. I feel a thousand brain cells cry out in terror, and then suddenly silenced, every time IContinue reading “On Reading Republicans”