Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Some of the political pundits are weblogging the local results of the election during the day. I won’t check for results until after the polls closed and the true results start coming in. I’m not a newspaper or a television station — people should check those for up to the minute results. […]
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Vote as if your life is dependent on it
In some ways, I don’t think there’s ever been a US election in this country that has more far reaching implications than the one next week. If the Republicans gain control of the Senate next week, and maintain control of the House, they’ll have full control of the Senate, the House, and the Executive Branch […]
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A new symbol for peace
When we protested the Vietnam war, our goals were simple, our vision united: stop the war, bring our boys home. Stop the war, bring our boys home. And in that time a simple symbol was all we needed. Today, though, our goals are muted, splintered, filtered through uncertainty, fear, frustration, and too many long standing […]
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Give peace a chance
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Today’s anti-war rally held at the U City Loop in St. Louis unfortunately lived down to my expectations. The demonstration was poorly organized, and instead of focusing on a possible war with Iraq, those participating spoke out against everything from the treatment of Native Americans in this country, slavery, to […]
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It isn’t always ideal
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Warning: this is yet another disconnected ramble. I never publicly thanked Dorothea for her strong defense of me in my recent confrontation with a well known weblogger. I did privately, but didn’t want to publicly because, well, I wanted to let the whole thing just die out. However, now is the time for me […]