June 2007
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Posted by M. Wright | Filed in: Politics
I suppose this one is better than some of her earlier selections:
Celine Dion - You and I Lyrics print version
High above the mountains, far across the sea
I can hear your voice calling out to me
Brighter than the sun and darker than the night
I can see your love shining like a light
And on and on this earth spins like a carousel
If I could travel across the world
The secrets I would tell
Chorus:
You and I
Were meant to fly
Higher than the clouds
We’ll sail across the sky
So come with me
And you will feel
That we’re soaring
That we’re floating up so high
Cause you and I were meant to fly
Sailing like a bird high on the wings of love
Take me higher than all the stars above
I’m burning, yearning
Gently turning round and round
I’m always rising up I never
Want to come back down
Chorus x2
You and I were meant to fly
This may be the worst lyric ever written: “Brighter than the sun and darker than the night / I can see your love shining like a light.”
Is Sen. Clinton really going to “travel across the world” and tell our secrets? What is this, a love song for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?
What on earth?
UPDATE: Ann Althouse provides a Freudian interpretation, in two parts.
Posted by M. Wright | Filed in: Notes
…and here’s a good one.
And because blogs were created for posting the results of such tests, here’s my contribution to that objective:
Your Type is
ISTJ
Introverted - 22%
Sensing - 25%
Thinking - 12%
Judging - 11%
Qualitative analysis of your type formula
You are:
slightly expressed introvert
moderately expressed sensing personality
slightly expressed thinking personality
slightly expressed judging personality
Details:
http://keirsey.com/personality/sjit.html
http://typelogic.com/istj.html
Thank you, Al Gore.
UPDATE: Another time through, with the wife guiding the answers, reveals me as an even stronger ISTJ, to the following degrees: 56-62-50-67.
Posted by M. Wright | Filed in: Blogosphere
A friend of mine recently sent me this link to a story about a Harding University professor who is challenging, to a certain degree, Fred Thompson’s affiliation with the Church of Christ.
Back in March, Professor Mark Elrod had issued his (somewhat tongue-in-cheek) “I Saw Fred Thompson at a Church of Christ” challenge (later clarifying the blog post after it hit the news), following the suggestion by some religious pundits that Fred wasn’t religious and the campaign’s subsequent release that Thompson was “baptized into the Church of Christ.”
For what it’s worth (very little, I’m sure), I stumbled onto Fred’s Facebook profile today and discovered that his religious affiliation wasn’t included.

What could that mean? Well, for the sake of comparison, John McCain’s “religious views” are listed:

The same was true of Mike Huckabee, Ron Paul and Tom Tancredo, but surprisingly not of Sam Brownback:

Brownback is often held up as the religious right’s standard-bearer this election cycle, so it’s curious to see his “religious views” missing.
I was not confident, though, that each of the candidates’ Facebook profiles were legit; it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between “official” profiles, mock profiles and fan pages on Facebook. In addition, we can’t know for certain if even the “official” Facebook profiles were reviewed by the candidates themselves or constructed wholly by staff.
Still, it was fun to investigate. And you might not be surprised to see that the “religious views” category on Mitt Romney’s profile is left off:

It’s interesting how the media template for one Republican candidate is that he’s trying to run away from his religion (Romney), while another is mocked for his assumed lack of religious devotion (Thompson).
Meanwhile, the Democrats host a “forum on faith and values,” in which the top tier candidates pledge to uphold the sacred Jim Wallis doctrine that all faiths are equally generic and that Christianity is just slang for socialism.
Posted by M. Wright | Filed in: Entertainment

Too callous? Probably, but so is she. Distasteful? Sure, but so was her sentence.
Posted by M. Wright | Filed in: Baseball
A more obvious answer to the question of renaming the local minor league hockey team is this: The Memphis Riverkings of Southhaven.
Or they could move the team back to Memphis and call them The Wet Willies.
Posted by M. Wright | Filed in: St Louis
Posted by M. Wright | Filed in: Blogosphere
Jeff has entered the twilight zone.
Posted by M. Wright | Filed in: Memphis
The Memphis Advertising Federation’s Pyramid Awards are this weekend, but was the artist who created this image going for something disgusting like this (sneaking it past the committee a la TIME magazine), or something more innocent?
Posted by M. Wright | Filed in: Politics
I hate to be the one to break this to you, but you should know that the Presidential candidate from Illinois has no chance in the 2008 Democratic Presidential Primary.
For one thing, the Senator has too little experience, having served only one term in the Senate, and just a few years in the Illinois state congress. And though many people are thrilled by the idea of voting for the first African-American President, thus far the public has been caught up with the demographics and is only vaguely aware of the Senator’s actual policy views.
We do know the candidate worked as a lawyer prior to becoming a public servant, has plenty of friends at the University of Chicago, gives stump speeches that reveal a charismatic, sunny disposition, and is on the left side of the political spectrum.
But despite all this, Carol Moseley Braun is a non-starter in ‘08.
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