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Update From the Lit Director Desk
As summer marches along and we're wading knee-deep into 2o16 Festival prep, I thought it might be a good time for an update. So much is being planned for this year's Fest, happening November 5 and 6 (first rule of festival life: never pass up an opportunity to mention the dates), that it seems the only real […]Festival News Most Visited News and Events
July Book Club Picks
Welcome to the first monthly meeting of the Texas Book Festival Book Club recommendations blog post! Each month we will choose three new paperback releases and one TBF favorite that we think make for great group discussions. Hopefully this list will help your book club make a unanimous choice, whether your book club is Book Gals, […]Most Visited News and Events Who's Reading What
Summer Reading List: YA Lit
Looking for some Young Adult books to bring to the beach for the summer? Below are some of our recommendations! THE GAME OF LOVE AND DEATH by Martha Brockenbrough The Game of Love and Death features some familiar faces: Antony and Cleopatra, Romeo and Juliet, and Helen of Troy and Paris. However, in this […]News and Events
Julie's Recommended Reads in July
Summer is officially here. My tote bag is stuffed with swim gear, bottled water and at least three books at a time. Here's what I'm looking forward to seeing on shelves this month: You Are Having A Good Time by Amie Barrodale This is the debut collection of short fiction to grab this month. Barrodale is […]Most Visited News and Events Who's Reading What
Summer Reading: Middle Grade Lit
School's out and the library is open. Keep your summer filled with books, and check out some of these great Middle Grade Lit selections! RAYMIE NIGHTINGALE by Kate DiCamillo Age: 10 years and up Fans of DiCamillo's past books such as Because of Winn-Dixie and The Tale of Despereaux will love her new book, Raymie Nightingale. Raymie enters the Little Miss […]Most Visited News and Events
2016 Author Sneak Peek
We're thrilled to announce sixteen of the authors who will participate in this year's Texas Book Festival, happening November 5 and 6 in and around the State Capitol grounds in Austin, Texas. Our full 2016 lineup will be announced in early September. For now, mark your calendars and join us here in the heart of Texas as we […]Festival News For the Family Most Visited News and Events Who's Reading What
2016 Texas Book Festival Poster Revealed
"Why we was up so high you could see the whole World stretching out all around you…" – The Devil's Backbone We're thrilled to reveal the official 2016 Texas Book Festival poster. This year's poster art was selected in honor of Jack Unruh, the legendary Texas artist and illustrator who passed away in May 2016. Unruh's iconic […]News and Events
Summer Reading List: Children's Lit
Here are some of our summer reading picks for children's literature. These picture books are sure to keep your little one entertained throughout the summer. Middle grade and YA summer reading picks are forthcoming, so stay tuned! Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear by Lindsay Mattick and illustrated by […]Most Visited News and Events
Texas Book Festival Announces New Development Director
We are excited to announce that Janet Hutchison has joined the Texas Book Festival team as Development Director. Janet serves as the TBF primary development officer responsible for fundraising and ensuring that fundraising efforts support the Festival's mission, programs and strategic vision. A native Texan, Janet has a B.A. in Literature from the University of Texas […]News and Events
Texas Teen Book Festival 2016 Lineup
The FULL Texas Teen Book Festival lineup is finally here! 30 amazing YA authors for a full day of fun! Check out the full lineup here and be sure to mark those calendars for October 1st, 2016. The Texas Teen Book Festival is held at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas! Be sure to join […]News and Events
Julie's New Book Picks for June
New month, new books. Here's what's on my radar in the merry month of June. Below you'll find a mix of books I've read and loved and a couple of books coming out this month that I can't wait to read. Above you'll find a shot of McKinney Falls State Park here in Austin, a great […]Festival News News and Events Who's Reading What
Poet Profile: Eileen Myles
Eileen Myles has been writing poetry, prose, and criticism for the last thirty years. She's published more than twenty books, but only recently did she find a wider audience after the reissue of Chelsea Girls (an autobiographical account of her explosive adolescence). A recent profile in the New York Times has a theory why: "The gritty, idealistic outsiders of New York's creative scenes in […]Most Visited News and Events
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21 Books for Your 4th of July Reading
The countdown to the holiday weekend is officially over, and we suggest you stuff your beach tote with a handful of these red, white, and blue reads. Happy 4th, everybody! […]Most Visited News and Events
10 Perfect Summer Reading Spots in Texas
It's officially summer, which means it's time to load up on sunscreen and venture out into the great outdoors of our Lone Star State. While swimming, hiking, kayaking and leisurely strolls down city streets are all well and good, this is also the time of year when we look for sweet spots to sit a […]Most Visited News and Events
Author K.A. Holt Talks Fiction Writing Contest
As the Youth Fiction Contest comes to a close, we asked author K.A. Holt to write about her experience with contests. Don't wait and enter the Fiction Contest today. Submissions close July 1, 2016. When I was in school, I always wanted to enter contests. Writing contests, art contests, speech contests, acting contests. I […]News and Events
Recommended Read May 2016: THE LAST PAINTING OF SARA DE VOS
Give Dominic Smith a Google and you'll discover a few things. First: he bats left-handed. Second: he was selected by the New York Mets in the 1st round of the 2013 MLB June Amateur Draft. Third: there's more than one Dominic Smith. Google Dominic Smith author and you'll find what you came for: an Austin-based author […]Festival News News and Events Who's Reading What
Texas Teen Book Festival Announces 2016 Keynotes!
Texas Teen Book Festival has announced its 2016 keynote speakers! Get excited for bestselling authors Laini Taylor (Strange in the Dreamer) and Leigh Bardugo (Crooked Kingdom)! Check out the full announcement over on the TTBF blog. Stay tuned for plenty more news to come about this year's Texas Teen Book Festival! Join the […]Festival News For the Family News and Events
New Books to Check Out in May
A new month means a fresh crop of books on bookstore shelves. Here are a few we're adding to our To-Be-Read pile this month. The After Party by Anton DiSclafani (May 17) DiSclafani is the author of the well-received, book club-ready novel, The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls (I will spend the rest of my book career attempting […]Festival News News and Events Who's Reading What
2016 Library Grant Recipients Announced
We announced the winners of our 2015-2016 Texas Public Library Collection Enhancement Grants at the Texas Library Association conference in Houston on Thursday, April 21. Forty-four Texas public libraries received grants totaling more than $100,000. The Texas Book Festival awards grants to public libraries annually to support collection enhancement. The Festival has donated more than $2.8 million to libraries across Texas since its […]News and Events
TBF Talks to Sarah Bird
We recently had the chance to chat with legendary author Sarah Bird about the inspiration for her new book A Love Letter to Texas Women. A Texas woman herself, Sarah Bird is the author of nine novels, has written for The New York Times, Salon, O Magazine, and Texas Monthly, and has written screenplays for numerous studios. Her original […]Author Interviews News and Events
Texas Institute of Letters Winners
2015 was a standout year for Texas literature, and the Texas Institute of Letters, a collection of Texas-related writers that make up the state's oldest literary organization, has the nearly impossible job of singling out works for recognition each year. This past weekend, Antonio Ruiz-Camacho, Jan Jarboe Russell, and Mary Helen Specht were named as the big winners of 2015. […]News and Events
Día: An Interview with Pat Mora
El día de los niños/El día de los libros (Children's Day/Book Day), known as Día, is an annual celebration that emphasizes the importance of literacy for children of all linguistic and cultural backgrounds. Día takes place every year on April 30 in community centers, libraries, and schools. Look up your local Día event here. This year marks the […]For the Family News and Events
A Celebration of Texas Poets
April is National Poetry Month! To celebrate, we'd like to take a moment to recognize contributions made by the most recent Texas Poets Laureate. Their work has made an outstanding cultural impact on the long-standing literary and artistic tradition of Texas, and we are so pleased to feature them here. Laurie Ann Guerrero I read the […]News and Events Who's Reading What
From the Lit Director Desk: What I'm Reading
I've had a little over a month to settle into the lit director desk here at Texas Book Festival. Here's what I've been reading in between all of the emails. All of these books are forthcoming releases, so mark your calendars, place your pre-orders, and look forward to what late Spring will bring to your bookshelves. […]News and Events Who's Reading What
Poet Spotlight: Carmen Tafolla
Dr. Carmen Tafolla is a tremendously accomplished author. She's written over 20 books, including volumes of poetry, short stories, historical nonfiction, and children's books. In 2012, she was named the first Poet Laureate of San Antonio, and in 2015 she was named the Poet Laureate of the State of Texas. We are so lucky to count her as a friend […]News and Events Who's Reading What
Recommended Read: A LOVE LETTER TO TEXAS WOMEN
Here at the Texas Book Festival offices, we're constantly scouring the latest and greatest books publishers have to offer to discover the most interesting new work by the most engaging authors. Our goal is to put together an unforgettable Festival for you in the Fall, but who wants to wait that long to talk about […]News and Events Who's Reading What
2016 Youth Fiction Writing Contest
The results are in! Last week, many of you voted for the 2016 Youth Fiction Writing Contest theme through our website and social media. We are excited to announce the 2016 Youth Fiction Writing Contest theme is Note to Self. So what are you waiting for? Enter today! Entries will be accepted until July 1, 2016. Hosted […]News and Events
Tomás Rivera Book Award 2016 Winners
The Texas Book Festival team is proud to recognize this year's winners of the Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award! Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras by Duncan Tonatiuh received the award for works written for younger children. This book celebrates the life and work Guadalupe Posada, the man who […]News and Events
Read Texas: Blood Meridian
Listed among the TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005, Cormac McCarthy's novel Blood Meridian is widely considered McCarthy's best work and possibly one of the greatest novels of all time. Blood Meridian tells the story of a runaway boy who finds himself in the midst of the Glanton Gang, a group of scalp-hunters […]News and Events Who's Reading What
Read Texas: The Son
Published in 2013, The Son makes a more recent addition to the world of Texas literature. This novel followed Meyer's acclaimed American Rust as a Pulitzer Prize finalist for fiction, and is widely regarded as one of the best historical novels to be written this century. It is considered among the ranks of other Great […]News and Events Who's Reading What
Vote for the 2016 Youth Fiction Writing Contest Theme!
We know a lot of people are hitting you up for votes this year, but this vote will be the easiest vote you cast! Help the Texas Book Festival pick the theme for the 2016 Youth Fiction Writing Contest. Cast your vote by Sunday, March 27th. The winning theme will be announced Monday, March 28th. Hosted […]News and Events
Rolling Out the Big Red Carpet for Authors
On March 3-4, 2016 nine incredible authors visited the Rio Grande Valley with the Texas Book Festival to take part in the Reading Rock Stars program. The Reading Rock Stars program brings authors and illustrators to Title I elementary schools. Following the author/illustrator presentation, each child receives an autographed copy of their book, purchased by the Texas […]For the Family News and Events
Read Texas: Texas
In honor of Texas History Month, Texas Book Festival staff and interns are highlighting iconic tomes of Texas literature in March. What are your favorite books that chronicle and celebrate the life and history of our Lone Star State? Tell us in the comments. We love to #ReadTexas all year long! It doesn't get […]News and Events Who's Reading What
TBF Staff Celebrates Women's History Month
In celebration of Women's History Month, the Texas Book Festival staff reflects on their favorite women authors, and the stories and poems that made an impact on their literary lives. Julie Wernersbach, Literary Director : "Amy Hempel. Amy Hempel. Amy Hempel. I've read her Collected Stories more times than I can count. She can pack extraordinary power […]News and Events
Black History Month: Literary Representation of the LGBTQ Community
Continuing our honoring of Black History Month, this week we'd like to feature two Festival authors doing more to shed light on the joys, pride, and struggles of those in the gay community. These works show the reader the confusion and difficulties that one can go through on their journey in self discovery, no matter their age. […]News and Events
Gearing Up for Amplify Austin!
Amplify Austin campaign is an annual, city-wide celebration of local nonprofits and online giving in the Austin community. On March 8-9, you can support a lifetime of literacy with the Texas Book Festival by helping us reach our goal of $15,000 for Reading Rock Stars. The Herbert Simon Family Foundation will match every dollar up to […]News and Events
Representation in the Young Adult Genre
This week, in recognition of Black History Month, the Texas Book Festival turns its attention to three 2015 Festival featured authors. These authors are bringing diversity and representation to Young Adult literature. Their novels center on the lives of young black men and women in the throes of adolescence, navigating the difficulties of school, family, love, […]News and Events
Highlighting Festival Poets for Black History Month
In honor of Black History Month, we would like to feature the work of several 2015 Festival poets. These incredibly talented authors work across a variety of mediums (please check out Rachel Eliza Griffiths' photography!) and have received national awards and critical acclaim. They hail from all over the country, and we were very lucky […]News and Events
Texas Book Festival Announces New Literary Director
We are very excited to announce the Texas Book Festival has named a new literary director! Julie Wernersbach, who served as marketing director for BookPeople for the past five years, will start her new job as the Festival's literary director later this month. At BookPeople, Wernersbach plans more than 300 author events each year and oversees […]Festival News News and Events
Interview with Chris Barton and Don Tate
February is Black History Month. Honor it with two incredible titles by 2015 Texas Book Festival featured authors Chris Barton and Don Tate. The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch by Chris Barton examines the life of a former slave, turned U.S. congressman, John Roy Lynch. Lynch was one of the first African-American congressmen. This book also gives […]Author Interviews News and Events
Literary Lunch with Stephen Harrigan
Join us on Friday, February 26 at 11:15 am for Literary Lunch with Stephen Harrigan Westwood Country Club (3808 W 35th, Austin, TX 78703) 11:15 am Registration & Book Sales 11:45 am Lunch 12:15 pm Presentation 12:45 Book Signing Menu for the day is Pan Seared Rainbow Trout Amandine with Wild Rice and Sautéed Haricot […]News and Events
Enhance Your Library
Last year 34 libraries received more than $75,000 in grant support from the Texas Book Festival. Here's a little snippet on how those funds were used and how five libraries enhanced their collections. The 2015-2016 cycle is open and applications must be post-marked by February 5th, 2016. Apply now! 1. Hutchinson County Library purchased 184 children's books for their […]News and Events
Reading Resolutions
We asked some of our TBF Volunteer Chairs what, if any, reading resolutions they made for 2016. Will they read a book a week? Finally finish Moby Dick? Make their way through the classics? Vow to stop falling asleep the minute they open a book in bed? Let's find out: Brucette Beitz, Children's Book Signing Tent […]News and Events
TBF 2015 Award Winners
We were so happy to see a number of books featured at the 2014 and 2015 Texas Book Festival be recognized for their achievements. There were National Book Awards finalists, a Newbury Award winner, a Man Booker Prize winner, plenty of National Books Critics Circle finalists, and more. Below is the complete list. Congratulations to you all! […]Festival News News and Events
2016 Festival Dates!
Mark your calendars, the annual Festival will be held November 5 & 6, 2016 in Austin, Texas. We will update details on our website as we get closer. To stay up to date with news and announcements, join our email list. Details for submitting a book for consideration can be found here. Financial support for […]Festival News News and Events
Reading Rock Stars Houston Recap
The Texas Book Festival kicked off the holiday season by giving more than 1,800 shiny, brand new books to kids through the Reading Rock Stars program! In one very meaningful day, eight authors presented their books to students in three Title I schools in Houston. Each child left with an autographed book by that author/illustrator. See […]News and Events
2015 Reading Rock Stars Authors Houston
The Texas Book Festival brings books to life for young readers through Reading Rock Stars, a dynamic program in which selected authors from across the country are invited to present their works to students in economically disadvantaged public schools. At the end of the presentations, each child receives an autographed copy of the book, and […]News and Events
Poets & Writers Live is Coming to Austin
Start the New Year with a renewed commitment to your writing! Join Poets & Writers Live on Saturday, January 9 at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas, for a day of creativity, community, and inspiration. The event will feature readings, craft talks, advice panels, Q&As, and some inspiring surprises. Featured writers will include: […]News and Events
Dinner Lab with Magnus Nilsson
Acclaimed Swedish Chef Magnus Nilsson (of Faviken) will be coming to Austin to promote the release of The Nordic Cookbook on Wednesday November 18. Nilsson spent three years traveling around all seven Nordic countries compiling traditional home cooking recipes and the result is this comprehensive volume of over 700 recipes. The most detailed accounting of […]News and Events


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Madill Vacation Packages
From Madill, Dallas is about 90 miles (145 kilometers) to the south, while Fort Worth is 100 miles (161 kilometers) to the south.
Journeying in Southeast Oklahoma is all about seeking adventure, so why don't you take to the road and visit a couple of the other cities, towns and villages in the vicinity of Madill. Ardmore and Calera are two more places worth seeing while you're in Southeast Oklahoma.
While you are staying in Madill, don't forget to head to Ardmore. Approximately 20 miles (32 kilometers) away, this regional transport and shopping hub is home to Heritage Hall, Greater Southwest Historical Museum and Ardmore Chamber of Commerce. Ardmore has a lot to offer those happy to hang around here a little longer. Hardy Murphy Coliseum, Lakeview Golf Course and Gene Autry Oklahoma Museum are just a couple of the other places guaranteed to delight.
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Week three of "The Bachelor" and Juan Pablo is putting the moooooooves on his female callers.
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Macadamia House sell macadamia products, write children's books and run various events and farm tours. This site includes a custom Joomla template, responsive design and shopping cart integration.
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A Web App project for Snowball Internet. The app allows users to search a veneer database by keyword and filter results based on colour, origin, cut type etc. It also uses animations to demonstrate the different matching options (book, butt etc).
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An AIR Desktop Software project for Fibatron with custom AIR Native Extesions for windows that allow for serial port communication. The software operates an aluminium/steel frame notching machine using user input and configurable processes.
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Fibatron are a filtration production company who deal largely with the wholesale market. The website allows for all levels of order and product administration, as well as production management via an AngularJS Web App designed specifically for iPad usage.
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A Web App project for Web Sights. The website allows restaurants/cafes etc. to register and list their details on the site. This project included multiple Flash Web Apps including: advanced search, subscription form and paid listing editor.


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Painted Sky Elementary school will have kindergarten roundup for the 2014-2015 school year on Tuesday, April 1 from 2 to 4 p.m.
The kinder registration packet is available online. To complete registration, visit the website at www.amphi.com/schools/painted-sky/registration.aspx and click on Kinder Registration Packet. Print the completed registration package and bring it to register.
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Push the presence of sexy Latinas as your primary marketing measure. Interracial.
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In this action-packed animated series, the World's Greatest Super Heroes, including Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, The Flash, Hawkgirl and Martian Manhunter, join forces as the Justice League to battle powerful villains, supernatural creatures and evil entities determined to take over the world and destroy the League. Highlights of season two include League founder J'onn J'onzz fighting an android, League members confronting their deepest fears in a dream world, and a race through Las Vegas to deactivate all of The Joker's planted bombs, among other wild adventures.]]>
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Where to begin? Superman is finally back to his super-powered self, and the season opener pits him against his long-time nemesis Darkseid in an epic-yet-personal space opera. Green Lantern begins to get more imaginative with his energy ring, and Wonder Woman is less a powerhouse barbie and more a rounded character. Continuity has a heavy role this season, with plot threads from both season 1 and the prematurely cancelled Superman series finding continuation here.
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Especially interested in MAC point of view since I have no access to one.
Looks good.
What I do not like is the fixed pixel width, why not set it in font units so that everything scales with the font size?
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Nice site! So far the css and xhtml looks very clean and very well done. Some may suggest moving the links to the end of the document and then placing them through css, purely for accessibility reasons (I'm not even clear on them all...). Other than that, I have but one suggestion. When the text size is increased more than once on Firebird, the headers in your links div become too big for the background image. Why not place the image at the bottom of the header and then make the header's background color the same as the starting blue on the image? That way it will look the same until text is increased, but there will still look like there is a background image when the text is bigger.
Also, as to Roy's suggestion, the only problem I have with font-sized layouts is when text is increased more than once or so, pages can extend past the horizontal limits of the browser, and that can defintly annoy me sometimes. But there are definite advantages to using font-sized layouts (i.e., your links and headers will not extend past their boundries).
[edit] I actually may stand corrected... I just looked at some examples and maybe font-sized layouts don't extend past the browser's borders? I specifically examined Roy's site, and no matter how large I sized the text, the layout didn't create horizontal scrollbars...
[edit > again] I now feel sort of foolish, they will extend past the boudries, Roy just cleverly designed his page so that the content div wasn't sized, it was just extending with the size of the content... right?
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set the width of the page in font units? how so?
You would use ems instead of pxs. The em is a unit of measurement relative to the current height of the font. So as you increase/decrease the font size, you also increase/decrease the magnitude of one em. So declaring a width of say 50em would make your div increase and decrease with the size of the font.
You could also do as Roy did giving your content div (i think you have #features) margins using em, and then just let the whole thing expand as the text expands.
Hmmm...the margins idea sounds better than the width using ems.
Thanks for the tip on the links section pardicity3. I hadn't even considered that.
As said, well-coded, nice layout, tasteful use of colors.
Some gripes (there's no such thing as a perfect site... )
- I don't know what font you used (didn't look it up), but it's not the clearest, especially the somewhat smaller, bold stuff; this might also be a contrast issue (see next gripe).
- The contrast between the text and the background is a bit low (this is the case for most of the colors used), something that's always a difficult issue with light text on a dark background, something to do with how monitors work, or how people's eyes work, dunno...
It's not that it can't be read, but it tends to tire the eyes fairly quickly.
Maybe you could darken the gray background a bit, but then you'd probably have to find an alternative for the black h1 headers.
Good code, one small gripe:That's your validation icon div... feeling lazy at the time were we?

As for your design:
1. I agree with ronald that the font is difficult to read. The font/size/style combo is causing a very jagged edge, which on the light blue makes it a real strain to read.
I think you should seriously reconsider the shade of blue you have chosen for your links. It's far too light and too cyan i.m.h.o.
2. There is little continuety from the header to the rest of the page. It might look good if you ditch the rounded corners and conitnue the thin black border down the sides, with a footer w/ yellow top and bottom borders and a black background to tie in with the banner image.
3. Instead of the unsightly "home" link in the top right, set the link's display to block and set your banner image as its background. Then your entire header will be a home link
P.S. Where the hell is the "tips" section? you keep referring to it in your blog posts, but it ain't on the menu.....
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Definitely got me there Andrew! Remnants of the design phase...changed it to id footer.

About the font...It is Century Gothic. I had the alternate listed as sans-serif. I went ahead and added Verdana and Arial to the list. maybe that will make a difference if Century is not installed.
Also, the tips section was called Reference/Tips...then Coding...now Coding/Tips.


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I do not know Emmett Rensin but after reading this, I think he is as full of shit as a Christmas turkey, but that is not me being "smug", it is just an observation.
He might have a point about there being a "moral difference or policy divergence" between the left and the right but for the fact that it has been proven over and over and over again (and well documented) that what they claim is "moral difference or policy divergence" is rooted in belligerent ignorance, Biblical judging and void of real policy knowledge. So I fail to see how we can be guilty of not accepting what is not even established fact.
Some may indeed express their incredulity in a "smug style" because it is rather an odious thing to behold and one can be forgiven for not respecting the idiocy. It is sad, but it IS that simple. It is not "theory", it is proven fact "that conservatism, and particularly the kind embraced by those out there in the country, was not a political ideology at all". It just isn't and their repeated hypocrisy proves it is not even a remotely closely held principle as they abandon it at every turn when it suits or benefits them. They may well rail against "welfare" but they line up for the free clinic trucks too.
He also wrongly claims we think "stupid hicks don't know what's good for them". Of course they do, they just choose to wallow in their blame and anger rather than reach for solutions that prove their idiocy and hypocrisy. They are not "getting conned by right-wingers and tent revivalists", they seek them out for affirmation of their hate, bigotry, racism, and for reinforcement that their moral superiority is rooted in proof of white supremacy and heritage. Voting against their own self-interest is not what they mean to do, they are voting against the "others" getting any support, even if it hurts them too.
His level of maturity is further proved by claiming we all develop the "disdain cultivated in the aftermath of a divide quickly exceeds the original grievance. You lose somebody. You blame them". Well no, you might, but WE don't. At least the grown-ups in the room don't. We have the capacity to know that we contributed to the breakup by what we did or did not choose to do.
Liberals chose to lift up the burdened and the most expedient way to do that was at the expense of the rest of us. That hurt those with little charity in their humanity and a baffling array of disdain for the poor, immigrant, gender bending and struggling we all came from.
I do not believe they were ever our "allies" and when the Democrats started to embrace Civil Rights and equality (which Southern Democrats were not steeped in), they started leaving. Nor are they "rubes" by any means; they sought and often helped create the right-wing media that feeds their hate. And no, I do not want to "win" and make progress so badly that I will ever agree to respect that mindset.
If it makes you feel guilty to be called a "smug liberal" think how 'great' it would feel to be Ann Coulter's friend. In reality we are not "smug"; we are deeply troubled and puzzled that so many chose regression and isolation rather than understanding and equality. And if the right-wing is not "smug" in their disdain for us, the media that does not toe their line and government that does not reflect their moral code, what the hell are they?
I will agree that the internet made some of it much worse, but it also offers a world of rebuttal and refutation if you are willing to look for it. A liberal is much more likely to be disturbed by their own Facebook or Twitter "newsfeed" because the media has been so complicit in respecting right-wing BS and so afraid of their massive boycott campaigns that we have to look at the source to know it is not a right-wing site sneaking into it. Find yourself "troubled by the currents of contemporary political life" do not look to traditional news outlets to debunk or call it out. They won't, not until it is safe to do so.
And, for the record, history has more than proven that liberals are better informed because they work at it they are not "smarter" but they are not as quick to let their political support cloud their every decision. The extreme left notwithstanding.
Liberals do not so much process "better" they just do not use a stopped up filter and aim to see all variables before they pronounce. We do not have "better brains" we just have less hurdles to understanding the human toll.
I will agree that for a long time we thought if we just explained the truth (black people are not less, gay people are not deviant, the poor need to be included), that we could get people to understand, but many of us now realize that is just not going to penetrate so we plan to out-maneuver, over represent and stand in unity as we move forward. We know now we can write them off and go for the population centers to win in the places we can and obstruct and shame where we cannot. I do not call that "smug" either, I call it realistic.
The bottom line is that we are no more "smug" than the right and far less damaging to the liberty and individualism they proclaim to uphold. Ironic but true.
I think Rensin has taken the words of a few and extrapolated them to be speaking for all. Dangerous stuff. The differences are real, that is why they are studied and why explanations are needed for some to grasp them. If we were indeed so "smug" we would not need to vilify or decry the stupidity of those demanding respect for their regressive beliefs and authoritarian efforts. Smug would only have to sit back and watch it fall on its own heavy burden.
In the end, it is concern and deep hope that we can still reach people, even if only one at a time with the idea that the person they want to exclude could be their child, niece, nephew, grandchild, or neighbor. He calls us "smug" and to some, makes a good case, but the reality is we are still fighting to reach them even as we fight their efforts. I guess he missed the part where the right has EVER tried to reach us or respect our side of anything? I know I have never seen it.


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Mandela; The Authorized Biographyby Anthony Sampson
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The Life of Nelson Mandela is one of the most extraordinary epics of the twentieth century. An almost-forgotten prisoner on Robben Island twenty years ago, apparently doomed to a helpless existence as a victim of apartheid, he not only survived but almost single-handedly saved South Africa from potential chaos, to become one of the most widely admired leaders in the world. Mandela's myth is dazzling; in this magnificent biography Anthony Sampson penetrates it to show us the man himself.
Sampson has known Mandela since 1951. He was given Mandela's complete cooperation, including access to twenty-seven years' worth of unpublished correspondence from prison and many other private documents--even the original draft of Mandela's prison autobiography, long thought to be lost. He interviewed virtually every significant living figure associated with Mandela, from childhood schoolmates to Mandela's ex-wife, Winnie, to former president F. W. de Klerk. Mandela himself checked and annotated the manuscript, but Sampson was left free to make his own judgments about the man, which he has done with refreshing candor. The result is wonderfully revealing and objective.
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Whites were hardly visible at Mqhekezweni, except for occasional passersby. Mandela's sister Mabel remembers being impressed when he and his schoolfriends met a white man who needed help because his motorbike had broken down, and Mandela was able to speak to him in English.11 But Mabel could also be quite frightened of Mandela: "He didn't like to be provoked. If you provoked him he would tell you directly. . . . He had no time to fool around. We could see he had leadership qualities."
A crucial part of Mandela's education lay in observing the Regent. He was fascinated by Jongintaba's exercise of his kingship at the periodic tribal meetings, to which Tembu people would travel scores of miles on foot or on horseback. Mandela loved to watch the tribesmen, whether laborers or landowners, as they complained candidly and often fiercely to the Regent, who listened for hours impassively and silently, until finally at sunset he tried to produce a consensus from the contrasting views. Later, in jail, Mandela would reflect:
One of the marks of a great chief is the ability to keep together all sections of his people, the traditionalists and reformers, conservatives and liberals, and on major questions there are sometimes sharp differences of opinion. The Mqhekezweni court was particularly strong, and the Regent was able to carry the whole community because the court was representative of all shades of opinion.
As President, Mandela would seek to reach the same kind of consensus in cabinet; and he would always remember Jongintaba's advice that a leader should be like a shepherd, directing his flock from behind by skillful persuasion: "If one or two animalsstray, you go out and draw them back to the flock," he would say. "That's an important lesson in politics."
Mandela was brought up with the African notion of human brotherhood, or ubuntu, which described a quality of mutual responsibility and compassion. He often quoted the proverb "Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu," which he would translate as "A person is a person because of other people," or "You can do nothing if you don't get the support of other people." This was a concept common to other rural communities around the world, but Africans would define it more sharply as a contrast to the individualism and restlessness of whites, and over the following decades ubuntu would loom large in black politics. As Archbishop Tutu defined it in 1986: "It refers to gentleness, to compassion, to hospitality, to openness to others, to vulnerability, to be available to others and to know that you are bound up with them in the bundle of life."
Mandela regarded ubuntu as part of the general philosophy of serving one's fellowmen. From his adolescence, he recalled, he was viewed as being unusually ready to see the best in others. To him this was a natural inheritance: "People like ourselves brought up in a rural atmosphere get used to interacting with people at an early age." But he conceded that "It may be a combination of instinct and deliberate planning." In any case, it was to become a prevailing principle throughout his political career: "People are human beings, produced by the society in which they live. You encourage people by seeing good in them."
Mandela's admiration for tribal traditions and democracy was reinforced by the Xhosa history that he picked up from visiting old chiefs and headmen. Many of them were illiterate, but they were masters of the oral tradition, declaiming the epics of past battles like Homeric bards. The most vivid storyteller, Chief Joyi, like Mandela a descendant of the great King Ngubengcuka, described how the unity and peace of the Xhosa people had been broken by the coming of the white men, who had divided them, dispossessed them and undermined their ubuntu. Mandela would often look back to this idealized picture of African tribal society. He described it in a long speech in 1962, shortly before he began his prison sentence:
"Then our people lived peacefully, under the democratic rule of their kings and their amapakati, and moved freely and confidently up and down the country without let or hindrance. Then the country was ours, in our own name and right. We occupied the land, the forests, the rivers; we extracted the mineral wealth below the soil and all the riches of this beautiful country. We set up and operated our own government, we controlled our own armies and we organized our own trade and commerce."
It was, in his eyes, a golden age without classes, exploitation or inequality, in which the tribal council was a model of democracy:
The council was so completely democratic that all members of the tribe could participate in its deliberations. Chief and subject, warrior and medicine man, all took part and endeavoured to influence its decisions. It was so weighty and influential a body that no step of any importance could ever be taken by the tribe without reference to it.
The history of the Xhosas was very much alive when Mandela was a child, and old men could remember the time when they were still undefeated. The pride and autonomy of the Transkei and its Xhosa-speaking tribes--the Tembus, the Pondos, the Fingoes and the Xhosas themselves--had survived despite the humiliations of conquest and subjection over the previous century.
Some Xhosas had intermarried with other peoples, including the Khoikhoi (called "Hottentots" by white settlers), which helped to give a wide variety to their physical features: Mandela's own distinctive face, with his narrow eyes and strong cheekbones, has sometimes been explained by Khoikhoi blood. But the Xhosas retained their distinctive culture and language. Many white colonists who first encountered them in the late eighteenth century were impressed by their physique, their light skin and sensitive faces, and their democratic system of debate and government: "They are equal to any English lawyers in discussing questions which relate to their own laws and customs," wrote the missionary William Holden in 1866. In the 1830s the British Commander Harry Smith called the Xhosa King Hintsa "the very image of poor dear George IV."
But, over the course of a hundred years and nine Xhosa wars, the British forces moving east from the Cape gradually deprived the Xhosas of their independence and their land. By 1835 Harry Smith had crossed the river Kei to begin the subjugation of the Transkei. By 1848 he had imposed his own English system on the Xhosa chiefs, informing them that their land "shall be divided into counties, towns and villages, bearing English names. You shall all learn to speak English at the schools which I shall establish for you. . . . You may no longer be naked and wicked barbarians which you will ever be unless you labour and become industrious." In the eighth Xhosa war in 1850 the British Army--after setbacks which strained it to its limit and atrocities committed by both sides--drove the Xhosa chiefs out of their mountain fastnesses and firmly occupied "British Kaffraria," later called the Ciskei. The Tembu chiefs who ruled the southern part of the Transkei had been relatively unscathed by the earlier wars, but now they were subjugated and sent to the terrible prison on Robben Island, just off the coast from Cape Town, which became notorious in Xhosa folklore.
After this humiliation and impoverishment, in 1856 the Xhosas accomplished their own self-destruction. A young prophetess, Nongqawuse, told them to kill all their cattle and to prepare for a resurrection. As a result, over half the population of the Ciskei starved to death. By the end of the ninth Xhosa war in 1878 the two chief houses of the Xhosa people, the Ngqika and the Gcaleka, had been subjugated and were forced into a new exodus across the Kei. Successive leaders were sent to Robben Island, in keeping with the order of Sir George Grey, the Governor of the Cape, "for the submission of every chief of consequence; or his disgrace if he were obdurate."
It was not till 1894 that Pondoland, in the northern part of the Transkei, came under the Cape administration. But after the Union of South Africa came into being in 1910, the Xhosas faced growing controls by white magistrates. The whites, as Mandela came to see it, captured the institution of the chieftaincy and "used it to suppress the aspirations of their own tribesmen. So they almost destroyed the chieftaincy."
In the later nineteenth century the Zulus, the other major tribal power to the north, became more famous among whites and foreigners as ruthless fighters than the Xhosas, particularly the Zulu warrior-king Shaka, who had set out to conquer and unify all the southern tribes in the 1820s. The Zulus attracted the admiration of many British churchmen, including the dissident Bishop John William Colenso of Natal; but they acquired unique military fame in January 1879, when the British provoked a war with Shaka's successor, Cetewayo, whose army completely destroyed a British force of 1,200 at the battle of Isandhlwana. When the British sent out reinforcements they included the Prince Imperial, son of Louis Napoleon, who was ambushed and speared to death by Zulu assegais. ("A very remarkable people the Zulus," said Disraeli. "They defeat our generals, they convert our bishops, they have settled the fate of a great European dynasty.") The humiliation of Isandhlwana was finally avenged in July, when the British crushed Cetewayo at the battle of Ulundi and subjugated the Zulus; but their reputation for fighting spirit remained.
The Xhosa chiefs appeared less martial and intransigent than the Zulus, and after the Xhosa wars they seemed defeated and demoralized--sometimes with the help of alcohol. But out of the desolation of the Xhosa wars another tradition was growing up, that of mission schools and Christian culture, which gradually produced a new Xhosa elite of disciplined, well-educated young men and women. While embracing Western ideas, they still aspired to restore the rights and dignity of their own people. The British liberal tradition was reasserting itself in the Cape, with the expansion of the mission stations and the introduction of a qualified vote for blacks. Educated young Xhosas were exploiting the aptitude for legal argument, analysis and debate which early white visitors had observed. It was a route that would in time lead some of them into the political campaigns of the black opposition in the 1960s--sometimes called the tenth Xhosa war--and, like their predecessors, to Robben Island; but they would win their battle, and not through military might, but through their skills in argument and reasoning.
Like other conquered peoples such as the Scots or the American Indians, the Xhosas retained their own version of history, which, being largely oral, was easily ignored by the outside world. "The European insisted that we accept his version of the past," said Z. K. Matthews, the African professor who would teach Mandela. But "it was utterly impossible to accept his judgements on the actions and behaviour of Africans, of our own grandfathers in our own lands." Mandela, despite all his Western education, would always champion oral historians, and would continue to be inspired by the spoken stories of the Xhosas which he had heard from his elders: "I knew that our society had produced black heroes and this filled me with pride: I did not know how to channel it, but I carried this raw material with me when I went to college." While most white historians regarded the Xhosa rebellions as firmly placed in the past, overlaid by the relentless logic of Western conquest and technology, Mandela, like other educated Xhosas, saw the white occupation as a recent interlude, and would never forget that his great-grandfather ruled a whole region a century before he was born.
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Anthony Sampson is a distinguished British journalist, the author of nearly twenty books, including Anatomy of Britain, The Seven Sisters, and Company Man. His connection with South Africa dates back to the 1950s, when he was editor of the black magazine Drum in Johannesburg and first met Nelson Mandela. He has visited and reported from the country many times since.
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