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I'm not offended that SNL is using a white actress to parody Oprah Winfrey.

But it only underscores the fact that they don't have a black female in their employ.

fragments, 2/8/04

A society of entertainment breeds a culture of boredom.

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A memory is an imperfect copy of existential reality.

A memory is a marker of character.

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Rhetorical carelessness and overreaching began before the war, when various administration officials ignored Mark Twain's warning that the difference between the right word and almost the right word is the difference between lightning bug and lightning. It would have been much better if the president and others, speaking about Iraqi weapons, had said "we believe" rather than "we know."

After the war, in May, on Polish television, President Bush said, "We found the weapons of mass destruction. You know, we found biological laboratories." No, we did not. "So what's the difference?" said the president in December about the failure to find WMDs, because "if [Saddam Hussein] were to acquire weapons, he would be the danger." Such casualness, which would be alarming in any president, is especially so in one whose vaulting foreign policy ambitions have turned his first term into Woodrow Wilson's third term, devoted to planting democracy and "universal values" in hitherto inhospitable places.

For Bush, It's Game Time

One quote made during Meet the Press that blew me away

Bush said he supported his country during the Vietnam War era, but called the conflict "a political war."

"I supported my government," he said. "I did. And would have gone had my unit been called up, by the way."

"The thing about the Vietnam War that troubles me as I look back was it was a political war," he said. "We had politicians making military decisions, and it is lessons that any president must learn, and that is to the set the goal and the objective and allow the military to come up with the plans to achieve that objective."

Bush Defends Iraq War

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The Awakening by Kate Chopin affected me greatly when I read it. More than five years later, the feeling that arises in me just reminiscing about it is one of deep fondness. There are some exboyfriends who don't elicit this strong an emotion.