Daniel Schorr points out something that the mainstream media has missed.
Perhaps deliberately, since much of the credit for the success of Sarajevo and the Dayton accords falls not on this administration -- and no right-wing owned media outlet would want to be on the outs with their boy in the White House.
This bit of news also makes me wistful; this is the kind of success to which I'd hoped my stepson would contribute as a member of the armed forces when he joined in 1999. This is the kind of good and just work that I'd thought our country should do as a world leader.
(By the way, read the background and mission of the Christian Science Monitor when you have a chance. It's no wonder that Schorr is featured in CSM.)
10:23:29 AM 
Do you know couples that make you wonder how it all works, the mating dance that’s supposed to keep our race perpetuated?
He’s completely unlike her, lacking in social graces – or at least he makes every effort to piss off people when he has the chance to do so by pushing known buttons. She knows her limits, calculates carefully, makes steep allowances in everything she does, including her personal interactions with managers and clients and friends, and yet with him it’s simply never enough. He always wants something more of her, better of her. He also doesn’t know his own limits, abusing himself regularly along with others around him.
Another couple manifests a different set of conflicts. He can hold his own in a conversation about Einstein’s contemporaries and string theory, has the largest repertoire of blue jokes; she listens to Christian music and finds comfort in the absolutes of ideology. He drinks to the point of silliness; she chides him for it in public. She loves bric-a-brac, in contrast to his desire for the sleek and low maintenance.
Is this the way it's supposed to be, opposites attracting so compellingly? At what point do these opposites begin to repel?
Do the participants in these roundabouts ever see the same polar extremes of yin and yang that I see, constantly pushing for more space inside the tight circle in which they live together, circling like alternately mystified and angry cats, spitting and hissing, around and around without resolve?
What do they see when they look at my spouse and me?
10:15:22 AM 
