Just did my Biden/Peters Phone banking
So I did it, a man of my dignity and years and position just did the second day of phone banking for Biden and Gary Peters. My initial reaction to phonebanking is probably similar to most people: it is...
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Ash Tuesday
If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent If the unheard, unspoken Word is unspoken, unheard; Still is the unspoken word, the Word unheard, The Word without a word, the Word within The...
View ArticleThe most uplifting Gathering of Defeat you ever did see
Yesterday Lancaster Stands Up, the foremost progressive activist organization in ancestrally red Lancaster PA held a post election meeting in Lancaster City. We heard from a lot of people, and the...
View ArticleThe Language Of the Night: JRR Tolkien and Let's go Back to Middle Earth One...
Hearing I ask | from the holy races, From Heimdall's sons, | both high and low; Thou wilt, Valfather, | that well I relate Old tales I remember | of men long ago.I remember yet | the giants of yore,...
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Lancaster Rallies Blue - an Effort to stop the repeal of the ACA
Today was the seventh anniversary of the day the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was passed into law. Involving Herculean efforts, months of compromises and false starts, and almost...
View ArticleWhy Piketty is correct, in one blurb
It has been somewhat less than two years since Thomas Piketty's "Capital in the 21st Century" was published, and less tthan a year since its English translation was made available to those who do not...
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The Grieving Room Valentine's Day Edition: The Lover's Heart
Neither me nor my former wife was ever really into Valentine's DayIt was certainly not the case that we weren't romantic types; we had a very passionate relationship in many ways, at least until she...
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The Grieving Room: Yeah, it's Complicated
As I go through the second holiday season since the death of my wife, I have been thinking again about the process of healing, why it is so difficult sometimes, and what happens when it cannot happen.I...
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The Grieving Room: The Little Princess
On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux. ("One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye.")...
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The Grieving Room—On the Spectrum of Sorrow: Grief, Complicated Grief and...
So when exactly do you pathologize a normal human process?I have been thinking quite a bit about this recently because I remember, as the second anniversary of my wife's death approaches, a time where...
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The Grieving Room: Amour, my Version
When I'm strong and feeling fine maybe When I can look at you without crying You might look like a friend of mine But I don't know if I can Open up enough to let you in Here come those tears Here come...
View ArticleAn even dumber idea: Medicare means testing
President Obama is in the midst of a so-called 'liberal pile on' (by that meaning his base taking him to task for a cruel, pointless and politically stupid manoever of releasing a budget proposal that...
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My Favorite Authors: Jonathan Swift and an updated Modest proposal
We are all fans of reasoned discourse here. This is a political site devoted to serious topics, like the deficit, and wealth inequality, and access to affordable health care, and the need to move past...
View ArticleHow Nice: Someone at The Economist takes down a racist bonehead
As I have written before, I subscribe to The Economist but have mixed feelings about it. The magazine (or the 'newspaper' as it prefers to style itself) has a lot of good info and a droll and erudite...
View ArticleIndigo Kalliope: Poems From the Left: Elegy for a Mitthead
Although this seems to be beating a dead issue, I am in an elegaic mood for personal reasons. And so, for my promised contribution, I offer this in memory of a soul-less slippery bloodsucking eel of a...
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My favorite Authors: A return to Dr. Seuss, and an Indulgence of Sacrilege
I admit that I am not normally a religious person, but for this diary, lets have a go at one of the Gods that is worshipped fervently in this country.I'm not discussing the God, whoever or whatever she...
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My Favorite Authors: Larry Heinemann, Letting Us Know About the Scars of War
I Can't Remember Anything Can't Tell If this Is True or Dream Deep down Inside I Feel to Scream this Terrible Silence Stops MeNow That the War Is Through with Me I'm Waking up I Can Not See That...
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My Favorite Authors: Marguerite Feitlowitz, The Argentine Dirty War and the...
Tonight, in this city without altar I hope the dead souls can see my eyes and turn my watchful gaze into the flicker of a candle flame Not the sacrificial spirit money for the ancestors not the raging...
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My Favorite Authors: Christopher Hitchens and Confronting One's Own Mortality
Now, ballad, gather poppies in thine hands And sheaves of brier and many rusted sheaves Rain-rotten in rank lands, Waste marigold and late unhappy leaves And grass that fades ere any of it be mown; And...
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My Favorite Authors: Barack Obama, the Audacity of the Man and the...
Let's start this one in Iraq. Not because of the way the political leadership has dealt with the country, or because of the importance of the war as a central issue during most of the first decade...
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