Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Santorum's moral fiber?

"A common wish is for some combination of the three current frontrunners, a candidate described by one caller to an Alabama talk radio show as having Mr. Romney’s looks, Mr. Gingrich’s brains and Mr. Santorum’s moral fiber."

What I hear is a sleazy pretty faced religious nut. Is this completely off base?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/12/us/politics/tight-republican-primaries-suggest-unpredictable-south.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&sq=primaries%20suggest%20a%20less%20predictable%20south&st=cse&scp=1

Friday, March 2, 2012

John O'Donohue on Conversation

One way, and I think this is a really lovely way, and I think it's an interesting question to ask oneself too, you know? And the question is when is the last time that you had a great conversation, a conversation which wasn't just two intersecting monologues, which is what passes for conversation a lot in this culture. But when had you last a great conversation, in which you overheard yourself saying things that you never knew you knew. That you heard yourself receiving from somebody words that absolutely found places within you that you thought you had lost and a sense of an event of a conversation that brought the two of you on to a different plane. And then fourthly, a conversation that continued to sing in your mind for weeks afterwards, you know? And I've — I've had some of them recently, and it's just absolutely amazing, like, as we would say at home, they are food and drink for the soul, you know?