Friday morning

I am off this morning to the Kentucky Women Writers Conference where I expect to spend the day celebrating writing with a fine community of writers.

For your catblogging poem, let me recommend this Jean Garrigue poem, Some Serious Nonsense for the Cats and Wolves which begins thus:

My cat peed in the coalbin, why?
Well, God himself asks many things
And gives no reason for the sky.
If we get used to life, that is the crime
Though distant evils rise and shine.
My cat peed in the coalbin, why?

And for your political commentary, I must recommend this Fresh Air interview with Andrew Bacevich, author of The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism. You can also read an excerpt from the book at the site.

And let us send good karma to our friends in Texas, shoring up for Ike.

Update: Here is the NYTimes review of Bacevich’s book:

Andrew J. Bacevich thinks our political system is busted. In �The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism,� he argues that the country�s founding principle � freedom � has become confused with appetite, turning America�s traditional quest for liberty into an obsession with consumption, the never-ending search for more. To accommodate this hunger, pandering politicians have created an informal empire of supply, maintaining it through constant brush-fire wars. Yet the foreign-policy apparatus meant to manage that empire has grown hideously bloated and has led the nation into one disaster after another. The latest is Iraq: in Bacevich�s mind, the crystallization of all that�s gone wrong with the American system.

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