She may not know what she's talking about, but she is sure showing her hand.

At the VP debate, Sarah Palin said, "But even more important is that world view that I share with John McCain. That world view that says that America is a nation of exceptionalism. And we are to be that shining city on a hill, as President Reagan so beautifully said, that we are a beacon of hope and that we are unapologetic here."

I ask you all to remember that American exceptionalism refers to the belief that the United States differs qualitatively from other developed nations. It is a product of veiled nationalistic chauvinism, or even jingoism. The term is used in a negative sense by critics of American policies to refer to a willful nationalistic ignorance of faults committed by the American government.

This is not a good thing, Sarah Palin.

Hey Mister DeeJay

Today, I dug three years of crap and old clothes and boxes and blah blah blah out of my bedroom closet. It is beautiful and clean and organized now and it's like an angel is humming celestial perfection in there. While digging and clearing, I found this old Polaroid of Ethan at about the age of three, standing on a chair at the turntables.



( Bridget caught me drinking all the wine. )