Wayne Morse was a prescient man — a progressive who fought to prevent many of the national problems we are facing now. If only more had listened to him.
Read my new post about Wayne Morse, a principled and fearless US Senator from Oregon.
You’re sitting in a non-smoking train car when somebody tells you that you must get up and go stand in the smoking car. Why? Because a white person wants your seat. Even though you paid for it.
You resist. You’ve had it with second-class treatment, so you maintain your seat until you are physically removed [...]
I’ve been productive lately. Working on my novel, revisions, and writing a few freelance articles along the way:
Here’s one recent piece, about a merger gone awry:http://tinyurl.com/3jwlr6j
And another business article, on a local start-up’s new funding round: http://tinyurl.com/6bbzuns
Recently while perusing a magazine I came across this beautiful quote from British writer G. K. Chesterton:
You say grace before meals.
All right.
But I say grace before the play and the opera,
And grace before the concert and pantomime,
And grace before I open a book,
Mark Stein’s book How the States Got Their Shapes takes you through the story of how every state ended up looking as weird (or, in the case of the Dakotas, as boring) as it does.
There are dozens upon dozens of interesting tidbits in the histories of these state boundaries: the once-crucial access [...]
After watching a few fall premieres, I’m reminded why so many of us have veered away from network TV.
There’s a lot of crap out there.
Laugh tracks, predictable plot lines, unmemorable characters.
Top 5 Reasons to Continue Shunning Network TV:
5. Whitney. A show that stars an awkward, loud-mouthed, not-funny comedian. [...]
The mistaken notion that it was some sort of accident. When the second plane hit, the horrible realization that it was an act of war. Fear. When the Pentagon was hit, the thoughts of: Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco…what’s next? Fear for my friends who lived in New York. Relief when I found out [...]
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