"Barack Hussein Obama: last week, sixty-five million Americans turned a liability -- a moniker so politically inflammatory that the full recitation of it was considered foul play -- into a global diplomatic asset, a symbol of the resurgence of America's ability to astonish and inspire."
--Hendrik Hertzberg in the New Yorker
On Having Turned 80
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It seemed odd, even to me, that after posts (or, let's face it, essays) on
major and not so major birthdays for the past 20 years, I let turning 80 go ...
2 weeks ago
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