http://harrisonlives.com Railing Against the Setting Sun Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:34:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 http://harrisonlives.com/2010/01/04/democrats-have-nothing-on-limbaugh-the-entertainer-politics-today/ http://harrisonlives.com/2010/01/04/democrats-have-nothing-on-limbaugh-the-entertainer-politics-today/#comments Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:19:04 +0000 Harrison http://harrisonlives.com/?p=338 At his press conference outside the hospital where he was treated for chest pains last week, Limbaugh the Entertainer pronounced the American health care system sound and solid, the best in the world. “The treatment I received here was the best that the world has to offer,” Limbaugh said Friday. “Based on what happened here to [...]]]> http://harrisonlives.com/2010/01/04/democrats-have-nothing-on-limbaugh-the-entertainer-politics-today/feed/ 0 http://harrisonlives.com/2009/10/13/blowhard-entertainers-and-the-president-politics-today/ http://harrisonlives.com/2009/10/13/blowhard-entertainers-and-the-president-politics-today/#comments Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:57:01 +0000 Harrison http://harrisonlives.com/?p=270 Here I was thinking I would turn over a new leaf and find something good to say about everyone, and how quickly one’s intentions can be tossed out the window when provoked. I have an old friend on the other side of the political spectrum, a fellow I went to college with, who happens to work [...]]]> http://harrisonlives.com/2009/10/13/blowhard-entertainers-and-the-president-politics-today/feed/ 0 http://harrisonlives.com/2009/10/05/unartful-discourse-part-2-who-does-it-help/ http://harrisonlives.com/2009/10/05/unartful-discourse-part-2-who-does-it-help/#comments Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:55:16 +0000 Harrison http://harrisonlives.com/?p=266 The advice “Deep Throat” offered to Bernstein and Woodward in that underground garage way back then has been quoted often – “Follow the money.”  It set them on the way to discovery that eventually brought a president down.  Those young reporters were looking for a story and hoping to find truths to guide them in [...]]]> http://harrisonlives.com/2009/10/05/unartful-discourse-part-2-who-does-it-help/feed/ 0 http://harrisonlives.com/2009/06/08/convenient-memories-and-conservatism-politics-today-and-then/ http://harrisonlives.com/2009/06/08/convenient-memories-and-conservatism-politics-today-and-then/#comments Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:31:54 +0000 Harrison http://harrisonlives.com/?p=164 We all have a tendency to fall back in our thoughts and memories to what we consider the “good old days” of our lives, and how far back you fall depends on your age.  We boomers, and those a little older, harken back to the 1950s when things seemed so much simpler and the pace [...]]]> http://harrisonlives.com/2009/06/08/convenient-memories-and-conservatism-politics-today-and-then/feed/ 0 http://harrisonlives.com/2009/05/28/we-dont-need-judges-when-a-google-algorithm-will-do-politics-today/ http://harrisonlives.com/2009/05/28/we-dont-need-judges-when-a-google-algorithm-will-do-politics-today/#comments Thu, 28 May 2009 17:55:59 +0000 Harrison http://harrisonlives.com/?p=162 Racist?  That’s what Limbaugh the Entertainer and Nuke ‘em Newt would have us believe.  The line they find particularly offending is one from a speech given by Judge Sonia Sotomayor in  2001 to an Hispanic group in Berkeley, California. Among her words from that speech:  “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness [...]]]> http://harrisonlives.com/2009/05/28/we-dont-need-judges-when-a-google-algorithm-will-do-politics-today/feed/ 0