Letter about Edwards in the Carrboro Citizen

While I'm mad at him over the whole let's-make-the-debate-smaller thing, I thought this letter was pretty good.

A lot of people call John Edwards a hypocrite because he campaigns against poverty and lives in a big house. But this accusation makes no sense. He believes there should be no poor people, not that there should be no rich people. [my emphasis]

Is it true that no one can be wealthy unless others are poor? Apparently, Edwards has a more optimistic view of American capitalism. He seems to believe in prosperity for all, and that some may also have more than others.

Maybe this is mistaken, or even naive. But it is not hypocrisy.

James Coley
Chapel Hil

Mike is funny

This is not actually a Harry Potter spoiler. It's just funny. From my friend Mike in History:

Mike is going to give you a big spoiler: at the end of Deathly Hallows, Harry kills Voldemort using the power of love. And yes, I mean the Huey Lewis song.

merge smallworld?

In 2004 not too long after creating this blog I made one called small world stories, whose name captures its focus. I had a lot of stories I wanted to share and that seemed a good way to do it. I recently posted this there, but given how infrequently I post there it's not surprising that haven't gotten any responses:

I have a few new s.w.s. to share, but now that blogger has labels I was thinking of importing all the posts from this blog to my personal blog and giving them the label 'smallworld.' Does anyone have any thoughts? I don't know if anyone actually reads this given the sparse posting, but I thought maybe someone may get the feed. So if you have an opinion about merging or not please leave me a comment.

Any thoughts from my readers here about merging them together? The positive is making things simpler. The downside is that people couldn't get the rss feed of just the small wold stories (though they can permalink to a page with just those posts). Also it's a pretty cool name. I guess I'd keep it up with one post linking to that page.

"I'd like to check you for ticks"

That just may be the least sexy line I've ever heard in a song, or at least one that gets radio play.

The things I run across in my futile effort to better understand white working class culture... Now I change the station when that one comes on.

The song is by Brad Paisley, in case anyone wants to rush out and buy the CD.