UPDATE Mar 19: A useful analogy of Vietnam in 1975 to Israel today can be read here, entitled, “The End of Purposeful Ambiguity”. It’s long, but sometimes a bit of reading is worthwhile…. If nothing else, read the first paragraphs, and the last. (click to enlarge) Twenty years ago, sometime in 1995, I heard through […]
On Halloween night, 2000 – it was a Tuesday – my wife and I were in Washington DC, and managed to get a pass to see an evening session of the U.S. House of Representatives. No cameras were allowed, so I have no photos. Down on the floor were two small gaggles of congresspeople, gathered […]
Related posts: March 6, 7, 8 and 9 . (click to enlarge photos) This blog began March 25, 2009. You can read it here. Expressing an opinion on-line wasn’t new to me: that went back to the time immediately after Sep 11, 2001. Perhaps the first was two letters to family and friends in September, […]
Related, here, here,here and here . (click to enlarge photos) Sunday morning was the first day of Daylight Savings Time, so when we convened at 9 a.m. the crowd in the meeting room was somewhat thinner than expected for the usual reasons, including forgetting to “spring ahead”. Forum Executive Director Gina Torry began promptly, with […]
Videos of many of the speakers for Mar 6, 7, 8 can be accessed here. POSTNOTE Mar 13, from singer Patty Kakac, re International Women’s Day: Just thought some of you might be interested in the youtube video of the song Seven Sisters. NO, it’s not the one I wrote. This song was written by […]
Videos of many of the speakers for Mar 6, 7, 8 can be accessed here. Day One, here. See also, Day Three, and March 9 and 10. Over the years, I’ve developed a habit of not being concerned about the specific speaker(s) or program when I choose to attend an event. I just show up, […]
NOTE: Videos of many of the speakers for Mar 6, 7, 8 can be accessed here. See also, posts for March 7, 8, 9 and 10. The opening of this years Forum began with an inspiring surprise: the “>1964 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech by then 34-year old Martin Luther King Jr. This clip was […]
Back in January I wrote my two Senators and Congresswoman, urging them to not attend the Netanyahu event today – to make a quiet statement (see here: Netanyahu in Paris001.) Two of the three absented themselves (not that I had any influence in their decisions). In my opinion, they chose to not reward Netanyahu and […]
Leonard Nimoy just died. I watched Star Trek and liked Spock, though it was not a cult-like fascination for me. It was a good show, with a short run, three season, about 1966-69, and Spock did stand out. (Coincidentally, those three years were among the most difficult, and transformative, years of my entire life.) Unlike […]
Related posts here, here, here and here. My Dad died Nov. 7, 1997. Along with my sister, Flo, I was privileged to be there with him, at Our Lady of the Snows, Belleville IL. He was a month and a half short of 90. Like my Uncle Vince, who died Feb. 2, less than a […]