Susan Sarandon
As the Patriot Acts: Episode 1
Rabid Fiction by Tara Parks
Episode One: Another War, Another Ugly Negligee…Damn!
(The Oval Office. Enter George Bush, The President of the United States of America, carrying a Jack-in the-Box with his picture on the side of it. He sits at his desk and the box pops open, revealing the figure of Jesus.)
George (singing, bobbing head, smiling ): Jesus loves me, yes I know/ for Joel Osteen told me so/Big Business is on my side/So I should just enjoy the ride...(sighs, looking up) God, Jesus is great. (looks at computer, reaching his hand out to rub it). But I wanna go online and Google Jenna Jameson. Maybe I shouldn't, though. I guess that's what I get for monitoring Google. Now I can't search for bush.
(Enter Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, carrying a model of an oil tanker with "Altair Voyager" printed on its side, which has been partially hacked away and painted over with her name in big red, white and blue letters. A toy missile has been duct taped to its deck. She sweeps her arm across his desk knocking George's Jesus-in- the-Box to the floor and places her oil tanker in its place.)
Comedy | Events | Humor | Incredibly funny stuff | Bill Clinton | Colin Powell | Condoleezza Rice | Dick Cheney | George Clooney | George W. Bush | Susan Sarandon
Oh the Places You'll Go! -- But Then What'll You See?
Dr. Seuss titled one of his illustrated stories, "Oh the Places You'll Go!"
Today I offer two short stories to illustrate that wherever you go and whatever you see, what matters most is why you go and what you think you're looking for.
My two little stories are word-for-word true;
I wrote them down right after they happened.
I do that often, figuring my purpose in life is faithful witness to the lives I love.
Susan Sarandon in "Shall We Dance?" dismisses her private detective when she realizes mature love isn't about power and control or even knowledge, that she and Richard Gere are "witness" to each other's life and that what she sees depends on why she's looking. So she determines to change her own focus -- and that change in her eye as beholder makes all the difference.
That's the story I see at home. We unschool and always have, which means only that there is no "in loco parentis" in our living arrangements. I see myself as privileged witness for my children, not a teacher, preacher, pumpkin-eater, spy or enforcer of social norms, nor feminist foreperson driving them to market and/or to mark the world. I don't send them off to any of those folks to mold or judge, and I refuse to BECOME any of those folks at home, "in loco publicus."
Child-led | Humor | Life | Love | Movies | Parenting | Popular Culture | Schooling | Unschooling | Susan Sarandon
A Hill of a disappointment
"I find Hillary Clinton to be a great disappointment," Miss Sarandon told More magazine, for publication today.
"She seems to be a very bright woman. I've met her. But she's lost her progressive following because of her caution and centrist approach. It bothers me when she voted for the war," Miss Sarandon said.
2008 Elections | Democrats | Elections | Hillary Clinton | Susan Sarandon
