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/2008/04/23/unseemly-times-for-the-times/ http://harrisonlives.com/2008/04/23/unseemly-times-for-the-times/#comments Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:26:59 +0000 Harrison http://harrisonlives.com/?p=20 I’ve been reading the New York Times for almost 4 decades, beginning with the publication of the Pentagon Papers in 1971 after Daniel Ellsberg pirated them out of Washington. I still look at its front page regularly, and although my politics have changed somewhat over the years, I’ve still considered it to be at [...]]]> http://harrisonlives.com/2008/04/23/unseemly-times-for-the-times/feed/ 0 http://harrisonlives.com/2008/04/22/morons-dog-vomit-and-todays-politics/ http://harrisonlives.com/2008/04/22/morons-dog-vomit-and-todays-politics/#comments Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:48:57 +0000 Harrison http://harrisonlives.com/?p=19 The media tell us everything we need to know and more about presidential campaigns. Endlessly, too. Front page stories, ’round the clock political analysis on cable, and the network news are full of everything about Senators Clinton, McCain and Obama every day, and thank the heavens its Pennsylvania Tuesday. What do the campaigns tell [...]]]> http://harrisonlives.com/2008/04/22/morons-dog-vomit-and-todays-politics/feed/ 0 http://harrisonlives.com/2008/04/18/voltaire-as-political-pundit/ http://harrisonlives.com/2008/04/18/voltaire-as-political-pundit/#comments Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:14:00 +0000 Harrison http://harrisonlives.com/?p=18 Morning newspaper editions today have used the word “deification” to describe Barack Obama’s meteoric and media-driven rise to presidential prominence this political season. His supporters promote him with a fervor bordering on, if not crossing over the line of, religious faith, and never mind substance or lack of accomplishments. This phenomenon raises a host of [...]]]> http://harrisonlives.com/2008/04/18/voltaire-as-political-pundit/feed/ 0 http://harrisonlives.com/2008/04/17/is-either-of-them-one-of-us/ http://harrisonlives.com/2008/04/17/is-either-of-them-one-of-us/#comments Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:24:43 +0000 Harrison http://harrisonlives.com/?p=17 The price for a gallon of gas in my area is now $3.35, and is projected to be $4 here by Memorial Day, the traditional beginning of the tourist season on the Massachusetts coast. A 12 gallon tank, then, will be just over $40 to fill, and even at 27 miles per gallon for [...]]]> http://harrisonlives.com/2008/04/17/is-either-of-them-one-of-us/feed/ 0 http://harrisonlives.com/2008/04/15/can-someone-say-kiss-my/ http://harrisonlives.com/2008/04/15/can-someone-say-kiss-my/#comments Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:37:58 +0000 Harrison http://harrisonlives.com/?p=16 Shout “Beam me up, Scotty” at William Shatner, and the former Captain Kirk will give you the finger. It happened in California, when teens yelled it after he crashed his motorcycle. Apparently he refuses to dress for safety when biking it, and his beach attire was tattered from the accident. Kids [...]]]> http://harrisonlives.com/2008/04/15/can-someone-say-kiss-my/feed/ 0 http://harrisonlives.com/2008/04/11/which-way-for-faith-based-voting/ http://harrisonlives.com/2008/04/11/which-way-for-faith-based-voting/#comments Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:25:22 +0000 Harrison http://harrisonlives.com/?p=15 There are three possible explanations of our original state for us to consider, and I suppose the one to which you subscribe tells more about you than most anything else as a human being. We are inherently bad, and life’s purpose is to strive toward good; we are inherently good, and life’s purpose is to [...]]]> http://harrisonlives.com/2008/04/11/which-way-for-faith-based-voting/feed/ 0 http://harrisonlives.com/2008/04/10/lumberg-the-liar-and-todays-news/ http://harrisonlives.com/2008/04/10/lumberg-the-liar-and-todays-news/#comments Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:15:30 +0000 Harrison http://harrisonlives.com/?p=14 Not sure if these remarks were actually made, as my source is a little suspect. However, it might have gone something like this . . . . . . . “Umhhh, yeah, General, I’m gonna need you to go ahead and go over to Congress and tell ‘em we shouldn’t make any decision on [...]]]> http://harrisonlives.com/2008/04/10/lumberg-the-liar-and-todays-news/feed/ 0 http://harrisonlives.com/2008/04/09/the-wrong-man-in-the-chair/ http://harrisonlives.com/2008/04/09/the-wrong-man-in-the-chair/#comments Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:49:14 +0000 Harrison http://harrisonlives.com/?p=13 The general’s uniform was impressive, to say the least. If you are familiar with the military, you know that high a rank is not arrived at lightly. I remember meeting General Colin Powell at the Pentagon once, and remember it quite well. A small group of us was assembled in a meeting room [...]]]> http://harrisonlives.com/2008/04/09/the-wrong-man-in-the-chair/feed/ 0 http://harrisonlives.com/2008/04/07/smoking-prostitutes-and-careful-planning/ http://harrisonlives.com/2008/04/07/smoking-prostitutes-and-careful-planning/#comments Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:33:47 +0000 Harrison http://harrisonlives.com/?p=12 We all know the poor job Mr. Happy and his neo-cons did in the strategic and long term planning of the “regime change” in Iraq. Daily news reports remind us of that, as does the number of body bags that have come back full of our brothers and sisters from overseas. Better pens [...]]]> http://harrisonlives.com/2008/04/07/smoking-prostitutes-and-careful-planning/feed/ 0 http://harrisonlives.com/2008/04/04/farm-animals-and-a-political-scrum/ http://harrisonlives.com/2008/04/04/farm-animals-and-a-political-scrum/#comments Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:08:50 +0000 Harrison http://harrisonlives.com/?p=11 Yesterday’s column here, entitled “News is Not News,” was about the ego and sense of self-importance one must have to seek the office of president of the United States. It was also about the strength candidates draw from that ego and sense of self, the drive to survive and succeed. We can’t look into the [...]]]> http://harrisonlives.com/2008/04/04/farm-animals-and-a-political-scrum/feed/ 0