A few days ago a friend mentioned that she hasn’t seen many blog posts from me lately. It’s true: I’ve been on-line less. Part of it is my wordpress has for some reason been cantankerous. Another, though, is a bit of disspirit. We are at a very dangerous time in our history as a nation, […]
Overnight came an e-mail from a peace person, “strongly support[ing] direct talks between President Trump and the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.” The entirety of the e-mail is at the end of this post. The comment brought back to mind a memory. I’m one of those odd ducks who don’t mind the label of […]
Saturday was a very long, exhausting, yet energizing day at the DFL Senate District 53 Convention in Woodbury MN. The final credentials committee report showed 233 registered delegates. By the time we adjourned at 7 p.m. We had endorsed candidates for two state legislative seats, passed 36 resolutions, and elected 18 persons to represent our […]
50 years ago, March 5, 1968 – it was a Tuesday – the Hennepin County Board of Commissioners adopted “A Declaration of World Citizenship”. Three days later, on March 8, the Mayor and City Council of Minneapolis adopted the same Declaration. Less than two months later, on May 1, 1968, a large contingent of suburban […]
For your weekend: Just Above Sunset for Friday: The Conspiracy To Destroy Our Freedom: here Mueller and Trump: Born to wealth, raised to lead. Then, sharply different choices. from The Washington Post here. More thoughts from readers about prior posts Feb 14-17, 2018: from Jeff: I might agree on the Kent State-Parkland correlation. One would […]
Once again, a gremlin in editing feature of my blog…So, once again, I need to do a chapter 2. Two comments came soon after publication about the Newsweek article about Al Franken: from Eric: I went to Newsweek to read the Franken piece you highlighted. They have taken it down because they couldn’t verify it. […]
Published as the students from Marjory Stoneman Johnson are speaking in Tallahassee FL. Previous related posts: Feb. 14, Feb 15, Feb. 17 (two posts) Today is one week out from the massacre at Parkland, Florida. In the last 48 hours came two items that especially drew my attention. There are many, many more such items, […]
Once again the ‘gremlin’ said ‘no’ to some important updates to the previous post, dated also today (see updates below). This is the fourth post in this “thread”: Feb. 14, 15 and earlier today. When I contemplated the Valentine’s Day post, and the Ash Wednesday connection with it, I could not have conceived of what […]
Friday came this powerful Facebook post from my daughter, a suburban Middle School Principal. “Every single day I walk into my school as the principal, it crosses my mind. “Will today be the day it happens here?” Every single day I wonder about the student we suspended that said horrible things as they were escorted […]
A very sad iconic photo of the Ash Wednesday/Valentine’s Day massacre at the school in Florida: Florida school massacre001. (That’s the reason for the cross on the ladies forehead.) If nothing else, take time today to visit these two websites: Giffords.org. That’s Gabby Giffords, then Arizona Congresswoman, shot doing the business of being Congresswomman Jan. […]