Daily Archives: 02/23/2009

(Community Matters) Kevin Keim sent this video as a tease to attend Leonard Cohen’s April 2 performance at the Long Center.

(Community Matters) Response from a favored reader to my posting on Nationalization of Banks

(Community Matters) I’m beginning to believe they may be entering a decade long decline. The news just gets more and more weird. 

(Community Matters) . . . . increasingly seems likely, especially in light of rumored stress tests.

(Community Matters) I’m a fan of seriously considering for now failed, failing finanical institutions – at least recapturing performance compensation from corporate officers as far back as 2005.  nyt article here

(Community Matters) In today’s NYTimes editorial David Blakenhorn & Jonathan Rauch propose a compromise to gay marriage, providing for certain exclusions from antidiscrimination laws.

My thoughts: why the heck am I due one iotta less constitutional rights than the next American? Would America be better or worse off today if the rights of interracially married couples had been compromised? Perhaps Southern Baptists & Mormons would have been happier. Should that have been an objective in figuring out wrong from right?

(Community Matters) After this morning’s services, Nico & I joined his “friend, mom” in a quick visit to artist Kelly Fearing

Mr. Fearing, an esteemed emeritus member of UT’s art faculty, discussed his participation in the Ft. Worth Circle of Eight and gave us a bit of a tour of some of his art. Loved the story about India and his meditating self portrait.

(Community Matters) My youngest godson, Nico, became an acolyte at our church today.