From...Peggy Noonan and a Sentence for Obama

I think this article was pretty on point regarding our young president and the jumble of things he is trying to do all at the same time. Peggy Noonan argues that presidents ultimately come down to one sentence, not a paragraph. She fears Obama and his staff haven't figured this out yet.

ARTICLE FROM WALL STREET JOURNAL

On...Tim Burton

Down the Rabbit Hole

Tim Burton is adding his name to the long list of Alice in Wonderland adaptations (and yes, Johnny Depp does have a role, the Mad Hatter in fact, as seen above). Here's a little sneak peak from USA Today with one very fun image.

ALICE IN WONDERLAND

On...The Chicago Way

Less than Six Months

That's all it took for our POTUS to start being the realist hypocrite. He is having a tougher and tougher time keeping the mask on. Sure he will fool lots of the mob for the duration but the rest of us are starting to see the image we had an inkling about for some time. The glorious leader is welding power in all sort of "Bush-Ways" with a Chicago flavor.

The Chicago Tribune looks at his firing of an inspector general and the Chicago threats on others.

Newsweek looks at how the Obama Administration is not as transparent as it said it was going to be. Big surprise.

PS: Slate.com sums up the weeks dialogue on how Obama remains personally popular while the popularity of his ideas sink and sink.

On...Fun Music

Been a while. Grading 1200 AP US History Essays and Staining a Deck can suck up the time.

From the Fun Music Department.

Weird Al Yankovic has a a couple of new songs out: Whatever you Like and Craigslist (done in a Doors style)

Ben Folds has hooked up with a dozen University's a Cappella groups to cover his songs. Pretty funny. I really liked The University of Rochester's version of "Army."

You can go to any music sites (iTunes or Napster) to sample.

On...A Can of Worms

Abortion/Slavery: The Connection

I haven't read her regularly but Megan McArdle over at the Atlantic has had a few good blog posts lately. She has opened the floodgates with a piece on Abortion and Violence and the connection to slavery. Brave woman, but pretty persuasive in many ways. I wish her luck, but if you blog for the Atlantic you get paid to do this type of intellectual battling. If this is your cup of tea enjoy...

Begins HERE

Contiues HERE

On...Infatuation

Gettin' Away with the Goods

Robert Samuelson has written a great number of fine articles and I have posted a bunch in the past, but his latest needs to be blessed with a greater audience. The Obama Infatuation is a very non-partisan examination of the dangerous (or perhaps dangerous) love-fest the media has on our current president. The Crush they carried throughout the election (See SNL's awesome early take on it) has carried well past the honeymoon. As Samuelson suggests, we need a skeptical media. We need tough questions asked on our behalf. No government regardless of party can just skip around and do what it wills with no questions asked. That's a dictatorship or worse yet a banana republic.

I'm afraid that no good will come of this. For either the nation or Obama. He needs to avoid flying too high. The last step can be a doozy. We can't be blind. Honest people and courageous people need to debate his agenda and his view of the future. And we need it now.