attitudinal bias: who says a "golden age" requires a reversion?

Menzies Campbell: Obama's search for the golden age - Commentators, Opinion - The Independent: Ah, now here comes talk of a "golden" age in a cultural and a political context, but the commentator also thinks of this as being a "reversion to some golden age." It's time for an attitudinal shift.

There are no reversions, ever, at least not given our current functionalities with time and space. We have the present: Look around. Isn't this sort of a marvelous era in which to be alive? Could it be the golden age is right here, right now, and all we have to do is to keep moving?

Could it be that the emergence and blossoming of a golden age has very little to do with the November elections?

shot out: Rosemary's up and running on Meet the Bloggers

Meet the Bloggers » Rosemary Palmer, Candidate, US Congress, Ohio 10th -- I was afraid she might come off as "Dennis-lite" if she stuck to framing things the way he likes to, the snarky, wise-guy, "gotcha," way. She won't. She's for real. She's authentic. Talking to a normal, but talented, person like Rosemary makes me realize how dysfunctional, but talented, Dennis really is, and how underserved we are and have been for a good number of years, not just in Congress, but in all other government positions he has held, all the way back to embarrassments of the 1970s. If you want to acknowledge a big reason for the malaise around here, look no further than Dennis, and his rabid band of acolytes.

Rosemary needs to tune up her campaign patter a bit and become more pat and conversant on the "litmus test" issues, but there's a load of time for that. The fact of the matter is that she's running for all the right reasons, and that's because she's sick and tired of being sold out and lied to by elected politicians at the national level, who are conversant with the issues but manipulate them and do nothing. She's thrown herself into the breach on behalf of all of us. She wants representation and not buffoonery, and so do we.

before the storm, prelude to an exorcism

Storm sweeps through opening-night of Ingenuity - Cleveland Metro News – The Latest Breaking News, Photos and Stories from The Plain Dealer--Here's a picture of my goombah George Nemeth (hey, Goombah George, that has a ring to it!) and me right before the onset of the storm yesterday at the Ingenuity Festival. It was brief, it was violent, it was a huge surprise. It was almost as though the festival had created enough positive energy to exorcise whatever demons have been bedeviling this town these past few years, and they left indignant, but they left, and then the sun shone again as we prepared for the dawn of the new Golden Age, ingeniously. (The photo's compliments of Thomas Mulready of the CoolCleveland networks.