I did three miles this morning, before a little lifting. So the workouts begin.
The big announcement — it’s Tiger, not Afghanistan that leads the news
President Barack Obama is less than 24 hours from officially announcing a massive expansion of the war effort in Afghanistan and, yet, the lead story on tonights CBS news on channel 2 was about Tiger Woods (and no story on the war, whatsoever). It’s as if the folks at CBS New York read Chris Hedges’ Truthdig column today and wanted to prove him right.
‘Waist Deep in the Big Muddy’
Reading this story on the Obama troop increase in Afghanistan, this song from Pete Seeger comes into my head:
But every time I read the papers
That old feeling comes on;
We’re — waist deep in the Big Muddy
And the big fool says to push on.
‘Reality check,’ an interview with Chris Hedges
Here is the link to my piece on Chris Hedges from this week’s Time Off. Click here.
A Dog’s Life by Hank Kalet
with the dining room table
covered in bills
and all the proofs
that responsibility requires,
the packing slips
and insurance cards,
catalogues and doctor’s notes,
I think sometimes of when I was 8
and the worst I had to do
was homework and swing my bat
and miss at a slow-tossed pitch
and wonder where that time went
and, sometimes, I just
look at the dogs and think
they’ve got it right,
find a patch of sunlight,
crawl into a ball
and sleep, yes, sleep.
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