What My Eyes See

[wlotus]

I have been reading the NY Times. (T bought a weekend subscription.) What started out as a delightful intellectual exercise eventually devolved into disgust over protests against a mosque near the site of the World Trade Center (blaming all Muslims for the attack on NYC is as ridiculous as blaming all men of betraying their marriage vows a la Tiger Woods) and angry disbelief over multi-million dollar apartment prices in the city (push us average people right on out of here, why don't you). I wish Chelsea Clinton well, but the fuss over her wedding is pushing my buttons, too. (No reflection on her in the least, especially since I am a big fan of her parents. I just have issues with fairy tales of that sort coming true for others.) Time for me to retreat into a book.

Comments

[grandwoobah.livejournal.com]

I heart Frida!

[mallorys-camera.livejournal.com]

I'm a big fan of the Clintons too. Hillary didn't have much of a wedding way back then -- so I figured this was her wedding too in a way. It was hard for me to begrudge her.

The mosque protests... Dunno. I can see both sides there. Would Saudi Arabia support a Congregational Church being built in front of the Kaaba? Of course not. I guess the thing to remember is that America has always been about setting a higher standard of freedom -- but given the current economic crisis, under-reported so far as I can see: where i am, people are really, really struggling -- it's hard to remember to be magnanimous.