Tag Archives: Politics

Random Thoughts: Week of November 1-7, 2010

November 7, 2010

(1) Watching your hometown baseball team win the World Series brings about indescribable feelings. To anyone who doubted that San Francisco is a baseball city, let this week’s accomplishment be a testament to our faithfulness as fans and our enthusiasm. The city bled orange and black for weeks and the victory parade for the team was unlike anything the city has ever seen. Well done, San Francisco Giants! (2) All politicians, regardless of party, should read “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe [...]

Say it ain’t so, Sarah…

July 13, 2009

A day before this nation’s annual Independence Day celebrations, Sarah Palin managed to set off a pyrotechnics show of her own. The one-term governor of Alaska—or should I say the almost one-term governor—announced that she would be resigning her gubernatorial seat on July 26th. With only a few days left until Alaska bids farewell to its once VP-candidate governor, newspapers and blogs continue to weigh in on the whys and wherefores of her sudden resignation. In the weeks after her [...]

Liberals, Millennials and Catholicism…oh my!

May 4, 2008

Perusing the news this morning I came across an article from TIME discussing the so-called “death” of liberal Catholicism. David Van Biema goes on to discuss a brief history of liberal Catholicism and the affect of the Pope’s recent visit and apology to sex abuse victims. Liberal Catholicism (not to be confused with the Liberal Catholic Church) originally grew out of a response by a minority of Catholic intellectuals during the French Revolution who were at odds with the conservative [...]

Of Wright, Obama, and a Theology of Liberation

May 1, 2008

In an article from the Associated Press, Eric Groski writes of the divided loyalties in the Black Church </a>caused by the rift between Sen. Barrack Obama and his longtime Pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. The rift, of course, comes as a result of Wright’s recent speech and Q&A session at Washington D.C.’s National Press Club. In that speech, Wright accused the U.S. government of spreading AIDS, praised Louis Farrakhan, and suggested that Obama’s distance came from a politician acting like [...]