Today is the 36th anniversary of Roe v Wade. The theme this year, and rightly so, is “what is your top pro-choice hope for President Obama and/or the new Congress”? My hope is that our legislatures and our leader recognizes the right of a women to make decisions about her …
Change and Choice
Washington, with a couple million people struggling to get from here to there, usually on foot, was a pretty peaceful place yesterday. A little aggravation at the metro for some folks, but that passed and our 44th president was inaugurated. People were just happy. The worst part for me was …
Happy MLK Day
Happy MLK day. Is this land finally made for you and me? I don’t know, but as most people I have more hope for that to eventually be the case than I’ve had any time since I moved back to this country my last year of middle school. Bush was …
The Long Goodbye, and The Omen
Dear Mr. Bush, We have discovered quite by accident, if you will allow me a slight play on words, that it is possible to keep your head, conquer fear, and do the right thing, even in a split second from a pressure cooker. This was Proven on the Hudson River …
Funeral Marches and on Old School Friday
In under the wire with Old School Friday, this week the theme is television theme songs.This is hard because as most of you know I grew up watching very little television. I vaguely remember a cartoon theme song, and a song which played on some show about a father, from …




