The November 10 mail brought a newspaper column I had been expecting, a tribute to my brother-in-law Michael Lund, who died exactly three years earlier in Fargo ND. The column, by Bob Lind in the Fargo (ND) Forum, Mike Lund Fargo Forum001 tells most of the story, and speaks profoundly for itself. I had the […]
Yesterday’s New York Times headline hit me when it showed up on my computer screen “Now in Power, G.O.P. vows cuts in State Budgets“. Who can do anything but love trimming the fat of bloated, hated, “Government”? It will be an interesting process as a new Minnesota G.O.P. majority in both House and Senate take […]
“Alone in the vast universe I froze hell over And walked on its ashes To create my own history.” (The Haitian struggle – the greatest David vs Goliath battle being played out on this planet.) Ezilidanto November 8, 2010 Last week we attended a very impressively organized Festival for Haiti. People there, cared about Haiti […]
A few days ago we finished the biennial reenactment of the Civil War – the 2010 elections. While this is a supposedly bloodless sport, the biennial result is “a house divided” where one side “wins” and the other “loses”. The aim, especially strong today, is to kill the opposing point of view, relevant though it […]
Thursday afternoon I went over to the Tomb, formerly known as the local DFL (Democrat) headquarters in my town. There were several staff and volunteers working to make order out of the chaos that such places become at the end of a long and chaotic campaign. This was a Tomb, not a Nightclub after a […]
I write having only the sketchiest of information about yesterdays total election results. But I don’t write from inside a soundproof booth either. Yesterday I spent 7 1/2 hours on election judge duty in a precinct ten or so miles from home. My assignment was to hand out and explain ballots, so I had eye […]
I’m writing this post on Monday night, November 1. I will click “publish” when I return from being an Election Judge sometime on Tuesday night, November 2. Except for the last sentence, this post was written before the polls opened anywhere in the U.S., or a single vote was officially counted. Late this afternoon I […]
Quite frequently we have an 11-year old house guest – we’re his kid-sitter for, usually, a few hours. He’s a nice kid. Invariably, though, at some early point in his visit he’ll make the declaration, “I’m bored“, with the direct implication that it is our responsibility to un-bore him. I don’t take the bait. Life […]
I am overwhelmed with political information – it has to be like being overrun by a tsunami (without minimizing the latest tragedy in Indonesia). The instinct is not to master or control the incoming data, but how to survive it. I won’t run and hide, but after the election, my guess is that I will […]
I walked away from a TV commentary show a few hours ago. The host is someone I like and respect; his guests were four leaders from a few of the infinite number of different organizations that claim to be of like minds, but really have very narrow, poorly thought out, and often opposing agendas. The […]