CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • John Updike Dies

    Remember this story from high school? From the New York Times obituary: “My subject is the American Protestant small town middle class,” Mr. Updike told Jane Howard in a 1966 interview for Life magazine. “I like middles,” he continued. “It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.”

  • Drew Ward: White House Takes Official Stance on Gay Rights

    It went mainly unnoticed during the campaign that Barack Obama was the first major party nominee to have an official LGBT rights platform. Not much was made of this by the campaign or by gay rights organizations. Perhaps because they didn’t want to risk a media storm. However, the Obama campaign did reach out to the LGBT community via e-mail. Their message (also posted on the campaign website) outlined the candidate’s stance on several issues important to the gay community. True to his word, that same platform, nearly word for word was posted yesterday on the newly revamped whitehouse.gov. Why…

  • What is The Town Talk Trying to Say?

    I came across this unintentionally funny headline today on The Town Talk: In fairness, they were referring to this graphic: And the main event: Best part: Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions — who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short. For they have forgotten what this country has already done; what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage. What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them— that the stale political arguments…