Comments on: Seven Quick Takes - November 20, 2009 http://www.smoochagator.com/2009/11/seven-quick-takes-november-20-2009/ Diary of a pseudo-blogellectual. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:38:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Smoochagator http://www.smoochagator.com/2009/11/seven-quick-takes-november-20-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-1252 Smoochagator Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:18:17 +0000 http://www.smoochagator.com/?p=543#comment-1252 Hi Chelsea! I agree, cooking is one of my favorite parts of the holidays. Eating is fun, but the excitement of hunting down recipes and buying the ingredients (sometimes exotic stuff I've never tried before!) and then preparing the dish and PRAYING it will turn out all right... that makes the eating even MORE fun! Hi Chelsea! I agree, cooking is one of my favorite parts of the holidays. Eating is fun, but the excitement of hunting down recipes and buying the ingredients (sometimes exotic stuff I’ve never tried before!) and then preparing the dish and PRAYING it will turn out all right… that makes the eating even MORE fun!

]]> By: Smoochagator http://www.smoochagator.com/2009/11/seven-quick-takes-november-20-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-1251 Smoochagator Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:16:53 +0000 http://www.smoochagator.com/?p=543#comment-1251 Marie, I think you've got some spot-on insight right there. Oftentimes, we get caught up in looking the part so we can do good instead of just doing good. Looking the part may get more people on our "side," but it's not a means that will get us to the ends we tell ourselves we're pursuing. How are you, by the way? Marie, I think you’ve got some spot-on insight right there. Oftentimes, we get caught up in looking the part so we can do good instead of just doing good. Looking the part may get more people on our “side,” but it’s not a means that will get us to the ends we tell ourselves we’re pursuing.

How are you, by the way?

]]> By: Marie http://www.smoochagator.com/2009/11/seven-quick-takes-november-20-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-1209 Marie Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:07:24 +0000 http://www.smoochagator.com/?p=543#comment-1209 Yes, there's a creepiness and cultishness about a lot of this political stuff. I actually liked McCain himself -- in his first run, he was the "maverick", he was the Palin. I think the first round he thought he could tell people what good he wanted to do and he'd win and do it, the second round he got convinced that he had to win with whatever spin that took and then go on to do good. That didn't work either. But I think that's where you see the comparison to some religious groups, they get kind of wound up in the idea that appearances have to be such that they look a certain way to the world, and that will then (and secondarily) let them do the good they intended all along to do. Then the image-making gets bigger and the roots get smaller. .. .. Yes, there’s a creepiness and cultishness about a lot of this political stuff. I actually liked McCain himself — in his first run, he was the “maverick”, he was the Palin. I think the first round he thought he could tell people what good he wanted to do and he’d win and do it, the second round he got convinced that he had to win with whatever spin that took and then go on to do good. That didn’t work either. But I think that’s where you see the comparison to some religious groups, they get kind of wound up in the idea that appearances have to be such that they look a certain way to the world, and that will then (and secondarily) let them do the good they intended all along to do. Then the image-making gets bigger and the roots get smaller. .. ..

]]> By: Chelsea http://www.smoochagator.com/2009/11/seven-quick-takes-november-20-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-1182 Chelsea Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:40:54 +0000 http://www.smoochagator.com/?p=543#comment-1182 I love Christmas! I look forward to the good moods - everyone at work seems happier. I like that. I also look forward to time with family! And cooking. And then of course, eating! I love Christmas! I look forward to the good moods - everyone at work seems happier. I like that. I also look forward to time with family! And cooking. And then of course, eating!

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