Comments for Shannon Costello

Comment on Bananas (by Peter Chapman) by tara

tara — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:26:04 +0000

Thank you!

Comment on The Writing on the Hand by tara

tara — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:56:37 +0000

I supposed for a long time that, if a candidate was grossly unqualified for president, the electoral process would be able to weed him/her out in time. I now think I was wrong BUT the situation was not so cut and dry anyway with McCain because people respected his years of experience and service, blah blah, and he selected her. Now I guess I’m surprised that she is still getting so much attention. It seems to me that the media could do a lot to weed her but isn’t because of the celebrity factor or something. Or maybe because she’s a way to make Republicans look bad.

Granted, there is more to it than “being smart” in the sense you and I probably mean.

Comment on Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science (Charles Wheelan) by jess

jess — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:31:45 +0000

This post reminded me that several years back, your brother-in-law bought my husband a copy of “Freakonomics”…I went hunting for it, found it in the attic, and plan to start reading it this week.

Comment on The Backside of Miami by tara

tara — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:38:40 +0000

a wealthy socialite that presents a carefree face to the world even though she can’t quite hide the fact that something is wrong

Nice analogy.

Comment on The Writing on the Hand by Shannon

Shannon — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:52:26 +0000

What fascinates me about her is the accusation that she is dumb. Is she? Was she just having a bad day when she did that really dreadful interview during the election? Was she railroaded by the media?

My impression is that she has been working really hard on her image- speech/ghostwriters, etc.

But writing on your hand when you are a person in her position and in the same speech making fun of the president’s teleprompter seems like a colossal blunder. So I guess a better wording of “what was she thinking” would be “was she thinking?” I do hate to be this blunt, but my concern is not lack of class or hypocrisy, but intelligence. She made a comment in one speech about not wanting “some guy with a law degree behind the lecturn”, but I’d rather have that than…

Comment on The Writing on the Hand by tara

tara — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:04:46 +0000

Is “lack of class” the criticism or that she is being hypocritical? Either way (and not writing as a Palin fan) this seems rather blown out of proportion. The issues with her go way beyond something this petty.

Comment on Heir Apparent (Vivian Vande Velde) by Shannon

Shannon — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:26:38 +0000

Regarding considering the other side: I appreciate the picture of heaven in the fourth Twilight book (walking down a dark street alone without fear, for example- no explicit reference to heaven), but I heard it referenced in a sermon as being a bad thing because it presents heaven as something you can get on earth.

How should one judge elements of a work of *fiction* that have theological implications? I think that’s a complicated question.

Comment on Today I lost the cap to my extra virgin olive oil by Shannon

Shannon — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:58:15 +0000

It was in the garbage disposal. I had looked there during my search, but failed to spot it until the next time I flipped the switch…

Comment on Week in Review (1/29) by jess

jess — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:23:16 +0000

i love this post. all of it.

Comment on Week in Review (1/29) by Shannon

Shannon — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:03:10 +0000

One of the teachers that was dragged up there does some dancing. She traveled to school thinking, “Hmmm…I’ll probably get stuck dancing during the presentation- I’d better think about what I might do.”