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I’m liberal, but very moderate, and passionate about the need for people to understand each other and to find common ground. Three weeks before the 2014 election, some thoughts, the main one: VOTE, AND VOTE WELL INFORMED. First, this week, Nobel Prize economist Paul Krugman wrote a long commentary about his view of the reality […]
Out of curiosity, I checked to see when the words “Tea Party” first became part of my vocabulary on this blog. The answer: April 15, 2009: “Today is Tax Day, April 15, 2009, the annual celebration of the loathing of taxes. This day there will be a new spin on an old theme: “Tea Parties”, […]
Bizarre has become the normal in Washington D.C. politics, so it is easy to pretend “there they go again” – that it will all work out. One can only hope. But what if, this time, it’s the time for bizarre to become reality? Do you favor the Shutdown of the U.S. Government if Tea Party […]
As I write, 6:30 p.m. on November 14, a big rally of Occupy Wall Street is apparently taking place in downtown Minneapolis. I say “apparently” because I don’t know for sure if, or how, plans may have changed due to posturing by local government, and response by the OWS folks to that. That will be […]
RELATED, IF YOU WISH: I strongly recommend this GoFundMe project. * My preoccupation for this week was to watch almost all of the impeachment proceedings in the U.S. Senate. It was a long slog. I write this between the end of Friday and Saturday, which may wrap up the proceedings. I don’t pretend to know […]
Tonight President Trump makes his case. I don’t plan to watch. After three and a half years I know exactly what to expect. I am enemy. Back in June, I wrote to a friend I’ve known for 62 years, and who supports Trump: “[In]n the last 62 years only in the last three have I […]
There are several comments to the Cuba post, including a photo montage I’ve linked at the beginning of the Cuba section. See the additions here. (click to enlarge) Thursday evening we were invited to a small dinner party at the home of our neighbor, Don. He lives across the street so the commute was short. […]
These posts will continue at approximately one per week till the November 4 election. #1 is here. Thursday I was at a meeting that included my State Legislative Representative, Joann Ward, MN District 53A. I asked, off the cuff, how many people live in your District; and how many households (“doors”) there are. Population: 37 […]
In the next few days A.J., a young woman I’ve gotten to know at my local coffee shop, leaves town for a new assignment and career as a 5th grade teacher in a Montana town. Today there was a farewell party, a going away sendoff, for this young woman. The kids she’s been assigned will […]
Additional references at end of this post. A year ago today, January 6, 2021, was the Pearl Harbor warning for the future of our democracy and our republic. Pearl Harbor was far more than just a single day in December, 1941. There was history preceding it, which few bother to learn; and WWII after…. I […]