Picking up from last Friday’s post: How does one become an informed and engaged citizen-voter? Here are the rules I try to follow myself when gathering information:
Read the Rest!Xenodu: End of the Republic?
Will the outcome of the November 7 election foreordain the end of our Republic? In 2008, someone in my writers’ group dared me to do something “fantastical.”
Read the Rest!And, Here We Go
It’s on.
The national party conventions are over; the true believers are energized. Unleash Death by 30-Second Slanders to win enough votes from the 30% of “independent” registered voters who gag on politics to get to 270 in the Electoral College.
Read the Rest!Eugene & Barbara: Of, By & For the People
Being a student of American affairs, I had much to choose from in fashioning a suitable Labor Day remembrance—one that pays heed to both the history of and hope for working people, the skeleton, muscle, and sinew of our forward march.
Read the Rest!God Save the C.T.A.
As we prepare to observe the national holiday honoring the roles working men, women, and children have played in building our nation—which too many of us will spend doing everything but that—I’d like to offer a little prayer.
Read the Rest!Four-legged, Bi-winged Karma
If you’re anywhere near Face in a Book bookstore in El Dorado Hills tonight, before 8 PM, do drop in for the book launch party of The Dog with the Old Soul.
Read the Rest!Empathy: Vice or Virtue?
Last Friday morning, KXJZ, our local National Public Radio outlet, aired Episode Three of Season Two of Radiolab, where—in their words—“the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and human experience.” I was half-listening, as I’m wont to do when also working, until something grabbed me.
Read the Rest!You’re In?
Today, I’m going to perform a public service by attacking an issue that’s moved in and out my consciousness at least four times in the last half-century and could very well become a national crisis—“A Sleeping Giant at Our Doorstep,” as Reader’s Digest might call it—if not confronted squarely.
Read the Rest!Go Get You Some ‘Sun’
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Read the Rest!Shut Up, Pay Up & Let ’em Learn
My oldest grandchick left the nest today. Because both his parents are schoolteachers, I was given the honor of escorting Jonas to his first day of Kindergarten today.
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