Yesterday on my way in, there were few signs in my area of the weekend’s floods, although I never made it to church and we had trouble finding a way through flooded Des Plaines intersections after leaving Steve’s house. WXRT was playing “Here Comes The Sun.” Obvious choice. Then there was a short clip from The Truman Show. The godlike Director said, “Cue the Sun.” And then they played Radiohead; I think it was “climbing the walls House Of Cards.” An unsettling, crashing, creepily apocalyptic choice, just as I crossed the bridge over Salt Creek, which flooded farther to the…
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Governor Palin’s Reading List Fascist writer Westbrook Pegler, an avowed racist who Sarah Palin approvingly quoted in her acceptance speech for the moral superiority of small town values, expressed his fervent hope about my father, Robert F. Kennedy, as he contemplated his own run for the presidency in 1965, that “some white patriot of the Southern tier will spatter his spoonful of brains in public premises before the snow flies.” It might be worth asking Governor Palin for a tally of the other favorites from her reading list. And that shocking revelation is just one more…