Monthly Archives: December 2010

Life Isn’t Easy

The ideal among Americans is that life is easy as long the prescribed course of college, career, marriage, home and kids is followed. I think this expectation stems from two main factors. First there is our cultural Protestant work ethic which among other things encourages people to project their ease of success while hiding personal […]

Comprehending Compromise

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/12/obama-dresses-down-sanctimonious-and-purist-progressives.php There is a narrative we are being fed right now about how a former man of hope, now elected, has become another empty politician unable to deliver on campaign promises. This tale is woven by an overactive media desperate for filler in collaboration with political operatives looking to game public opinion. Don’t be sold […]