The 2008 Election Settled Nothing, Not Even

Now He Is A Statesman, When What He Really Wants Is To Be What Most Reporters Are, Adult Delinquents.

I Think Miracles Exist In Part As Gifts And In Part As Clues That There Is Something Beyond The Flat World We See.

Great Speeches Have Always Had Great Soundbites. The Problem Now Is That The Young Technicians Who Put Together Speeches Are Paying Attention Only To The Soundbite, Not To The Text As A Whole, Not Realizing That All Great Soundbites Happen By Accident, Which Is To Say, All Great Soundbites Are Yielded Up Inevitably, As Part Of The Natural Expression Of The Text. They Are Part Of The Tapestry, They Aren't A Little Flower Somebody Sewed On.

I Love Eulogies. They Are The Most Moving Kind Of Speech Because They Attempt To Pluck Meaning From The Fog, And On Short Order, When The Emotions Are Still Ragged And Raw And Susceptible To Leaps.

But One Immediate Thing Can Be Done Right Now, And That Is: Lower The Temperature. Any Way You Can, And Everybody. Just Lower It.