The Mongrel Dogs Who Teach

Thoughts on teaching, politics, life in general

What’s Going Wrong

mongreldogs | September 30, 2008

The failure to enact the bailout bill, or indeed, any economic recovery bill, has shaken some people to their core. It’s heightened a sense that our politics is broken and that we as a people no longer have what it takes. Someone wrote something at Political Animal that stirred in me a passionate [...]

A devestating campaign ad….

mongreldogs | September 20, 2008

… even if it’s one we’ll not see on TV. (It’s not from the Obama campign.) It makes the right connection between the mess we’re in and the so-called “maverick” who’s done nothing in 26 years to help fix it.

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=wJThPjvscFs
It’s on YouTube and I’d embed it if I had time to figure out [...]

Memory in Song (II)

mongreldogs | September 11, 2008

More oddly-prescient musings of Jackson Browne.
“Lives in the Balance”
Jackson Browne
Lives in the Balance
I’ve been waiting for something to happen
For a week or a month or a year
With the blood in the ink of the headlines
And the sound of the crowd in my ear
You might ask what it takes to remember
When you know that you’ve seen [...]

Memory in Song (I)

mongreldogs | September 11, 2008

It’s still surprising hard to write about 9/11. It galls me to see, again, our national “leaders” exploit this tragedy for political ends. And it saddens me that we don’t seem to have learned any lessons. So it’s really not in me to pen something deep and insightful. Instead, I’ll fall [...]

I am a Values Voter

mongreldogs | September 7, 2008

After the election in 2004, we were preached at that George W. Bush won election (not re-election) due to the rejection of John Kerry by “values voters” .. as if the millions who voted for Kerry had no decent values. That spurred me to write the following, which I still embrace today. In [...]

Lying Lies and the Liars Who Tell Them

mongreldogs | September 4, 2008

In case you — like me — watched Sarah Palin’s speech from the Republican National Convention and keep saying — like me — “I know that’s a lie”, but were unable to point to a source, let me offer this post by Hilzoy over at Political Animal @ the Washington Monthly. It sums up [...]