Watching the speeches, interviews and television advertisements of McCain & Palin, I've noticed that all they ever talk about is their past achievements, most of which are carefully and heavily embellished to take credit where little or none is due. Palin's claim to have "canceled the bridge to nowhere," when…
It's time to loudly proclaim to your Republican acquaintances that national security is about truly protecting the United States. It's not about merely making claims that wasteful policies are protecting the United States. Here is the challenge for Republicans: connect the dots from Republican real-world policies to some measurable…
According to John McCain, Sara Palin "knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the United States of America." Here's Tom Tomorrow's response: Really? Sarah Palin knows more about energy than, say, anyone in the Department of Energy, thousands of Ph.Ds in academia, or the CEOs of dozens of…
Over the years, I’ve often thought of the following quote: “The child is father of the man.” These words often haunt me deeply. They capture the absurd but true notion that each of us is nurtured and tutored (and sometimes damaged or destroyed) by younger versions of ourselves.
At one time, I thought the meaning of this quote was obvious, but now I see that it isn’t obvious at all. By the way, my interpretation has nothing to do with the fact that the quote is written in a masculine version. The quote could and should be translated to cover both male and female. Something like, “The Child is the parent of the Adult.”
The quote appears as part of a poem by Wordsworth:
“MY HEART LEAPS UP WHEN I BEHOLD”
My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
The Child is father of the Man;
I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.
What, then, is the meaning of “”The child is father of the man”? Here is my interpretation. Think of the person you are today. Think of the life that you are currently living. Consider both the predicaments you are now in and the joys you are now experiencing. Much of that (or all of that) has been made …
Andrew Sullivan is saying it like it is and he is thus getting pummeled by many conservatives. But the conservative press nonetheless refuses to acknowledge and discuss Sarah Palin's lies: [N]o one at the Corner has the intellectual honesty to discuss the lies that the McCain camp has been putting…