Archive for the 'political' Category

grace

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

Obama turns controversy into jokes, lesson at commencement
President Obama on Wednesday turned a flap over his commencement speech at Arizona State University into a joke — then a lesson about never being satisfied with one’s accomplishments.

“I learned to never again pick another team over the Sun Devils in my NCAA bracket,” he said, referring to [...]

american chopper

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

The helicopter I have now seems perfectly adequate to me. Of course, I’ve never had a helicopter before, so maybe I’ve been deprived and I didn’t know it.
President Barack Obama, at the Fiscal Responsibility Summit on February 23, in response to a comment from John McCain about military procurement and a new fleet of Marine [...]

zen and the art of doing it yourself