POSTNOTE Nov. 12: This mornings e-mail brought a powerful lesson from the end of WWI from Heather Cox Richardson. You can read it here. * The annual observance of the end of WWI, at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 is today. I wasn’t around then. Most places […]
Joe Biden was announced to have won the U.S. Presidency Nov. 7, 2021. Election Day was actually Nov. 3. You know how these things work in the U.S. The false narrative will remain forever, that the election was stolen…. Millions of words have been shed before and after Nov. 3, 2020, and it appears they […]
On November 2 I said I’d report back about the election on the weekend. I have decided to fold my comments on that into the Tuesday blog, here, about mid-point in the blog, the paragraph “My School District Results”. * Yesterday I watched/listened to the Colin Powell funeral in Washington. I did a recent blog […]
PRE-NOTE: An outstanding book about the Pandemic, “The Premonition” by Michael Lewis. A year ago – actually it was November 3, 2020 – was the general election for the United States. Today is the off-off-year election (duplicate word intended). If there is an election today in your town, vote well informed. I early-voted last Friday […]
PRE-NOTE: My 10/28 post about Robert Gates and Colin Powell relates to this post. Two related, important, long, articles came via two readers on Wednesday: here and here. Another came in Friday, October 29 mail, here, “An Open Letter in Defense of Democracy”, published simultaneously in two magazines long identified as Liberal and Conservative, the Bulwark […]
PRE-NOTE: I’m composing and completing this on Thursday afternoon, October 28, 2021. As I write, the endless chatter is about whether or not or how much or who will make the President Biden package succeed or fail…while President Biden is enroute to Glasgow for CAP26. When I click publish on this, I won’t know what […]
PRENOTE: Last Thursday I had a unique opportunity, which I want to share. An organization I’ve long been part of has a Third Thursday Film each month, and the offering was the film “Worth”, a 2020 Netflix release starring Michael Keaton as Ken Feinberg, about compensating the survivors of 9-11-01 victims. The ‘drill’ for Third […]
Tonight, October 19, Vets for Peace, 21st Peacestock, on Zoom. Details here. Fresh Energy is a recognized leader in climate change, and J. Drake Hamilton, Science Policy Director, goes to CAP 26 in Glasgow. She has a zoom session on October 20. Pre-registration required. Details here. Global Solutions MN has two interesting sessions, details for […]
Prenote: I encourage you to take a look at, and participate in, the upcoming Peacestock of the local Veterans for Peace. It is next Tuesday evening. Details here. * I published Louts a week ago, and a day later I was thinking about an old photo in the treasure trove at the ancestral farm in […]
There were a few interesting comments to my post on Louts. Take a look, if you wish. A Followup post, Teeter-Totter, will be this weekend. As I write, Wednesday morning, Oct 13, 2021, the chatter on the television is all from or about 90 year old William Shatner, just returned from his 3 minutes in […]