I would just like to see it focused more on spreading the good stuff, disseminating targeted and thoughtful calls to action and serving as a repository for shared experience and conversation, rather than a convenient way for a group to target the "bad" individual du jour.
---- Fareed Zakaria's "How to Fix the World" in Dec. 8 Newsweek could be used as a job application for a big job at the State Department, given his thoughtful call for Obama to think big, exploiting the goodwill Obama will encounter internationally and avoiding being reflexively reactive in dealing with foreign affairs.
Sure, a handmade card or thoughtful phone call is always appropriate, but if you want to surprise the mother in your life this year, here are some books featuring mothers anyone would love to hate (and hate to love).
My thoughtful colleague Amelia Gentleman marshals social policy experts to deplore the remark in today's paper, though – being thoughtful – she calls it an "uneasy debate".
A more thoughtful MP called the film a "weird" response to election defeat.
The woman who led the course was a thoughtful academic called Gerda Speller.
But two of her charges, a vivacious redhead named Dorothy and a more thoughtful brunette called Betty, became attached to my friends John and Mike.
A thoughtful representative called me to get more information, and then amazingly said she would research the rest and answer the rest of the questions by e-mail.
In Minnesota, the incumbent Republican, Norm Coleman, holds a microscopic lead 215 votes out of 2.9m cast over the Democrat, Al Franken, an ex-comedian and the author of a thoughtful book called "Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot".
I've written about these and related questions in my essay on Paying for Particulars in People-to-be, as has Bridget Crawford in a thoughtful article called Our Bodies, Our (Tax) Selves.
