POSTNOTE: A new friend, a retired North Dakota farmer my age, linked me to Ken Burns 2016 Stanford University Commencement address: The address is pertinent, and well worthy of your time, here. My intention was to watch the RNC this year. I lasted part of the first hour last night. I left about the time […]
Today’s local news will be full of news about Wendell R. Anderson, Governor of Minnesota, 1971-78; Minnesota legislator from 1959 forward. I will be hoping for mention of the Governors key role in Minnesota’s Declaration of World Citizenship, signed March 26, 1971, by Governor Anderson and the entire range of Minnesota’s political and civil leadership; […]
The Facebook album with 120 photos I took at and around the time of the Republican National Convention (RNC) in St. Paul in 2008, Aug 30 – Sep 4, are accessible here. If you access through this page, I believe you do not need a Facebook account to view these photos. The program for the […]
PRENOTE: In the wake of Falcon Heights and Dallas last week, Peter sent the following reflections. We agreed I would post this on return from an out of town trip. Dick * Been a long time since. It’s always good to read your writings. Feel free to post this response. You have a way of […]
NOTE: Responses welcome, to: dick_bernardATmsnDOTcom. Indicate if you are willing to share your reponse; it and others will be included in a later post at this space. Thursday, I posted about the 100th anniversary of the end of the awful carnages in 1916 at the Somme and Verdun, France. Jeff, who recommended the reminder of […]
POSTNOTE 1 a.m. Friday July 8: When I posted the below less than 12 hours ago, I was hardly aware of the shooting of the African-American citizen in Falcon Heights, a town in which I used to live; at a location I knew well, along a walking route I used to take in the early […]
I write after FBI Director Comey has made his report on the Hillary Clinton e-mails a few hours ago. The assorted “spheres” will make of the report as they will, over, and over, and over, and over…. Permit me a moment to share a bit of historical perspective. It happens that in the last few […]
POSTNOTE: An excellent commentary on July 4 and the Declaration of Independence, here. On Saturday, when I was doing some political leafletting in my town, I came across a Dad and two young boys putting small American flags on the edge of their lawn. I rolled down the car window and said “great job!”, and […]
The early morning Just Above Sunset, “Dreams of Vengeance“, was another excellent analysis. The column is worth a weekend read. Among the insights: In the recent “Brexit” election a crucial segment of the electorate who voted heavily to exit the European Union, was also a demographic which had the most to lose from Britain’s actually […]
POSTNOTE June 28: Yesterday’s Canada Day event at Harriet Island in St. Paul was marvelous in all ways. Merci to the office of the Canadian Consul in Minneapolis. As noted in the following, I was distracted by ongoing events of the “Brexit” vote in England, and its implications. Thus, this post may seem somewhat mixed […]