I've thought a lot about issues of war since I was a teen. I'm not a pacifist, but I do believe that this country has gotten into too many unnecessary wars. Like most people my age, my views on war were heavily influenced by the Vietnam War, seeing how it affected the older generation and the Vietnam veterans.
I'm not sure how I got on their email list, but over the past couple of months I've been receiving emails from MoveOn, a progressive Democratic web organization that was started by Joan Blades and Wes Boyd, two Silicon Valley entrepreneurs
WHEN: February 22, 2010, 6:30 P.M.
WHERE: SUNY Albany Ballroom, Campus Center BIdg. Albany NY
WHAT: An evening of theater, comedy, poetry, dance
WHO: Produced by Hillel and the Muslim Student Assn.
Ever since the special elections where Scott Brown won Ted Kennedy's Senate seat, I've been disappointed and a bit angry at the results. As a Democrat, though, I have to admit that we Democrats have only ourselves to blame. Ever since conservative activists made a lot of noise at the town hall meetings in August, these conservatives have been able to control the terms of the debate.
Response to the earthquake ranges from a wave of compassion to Pat Robertson's theological argument that a comparison of the fortunes of the Dominican Republic and Haiti can be explained by a voudou ceremony 200 years ago. Pat has made similar arguments before and it is all too easy to dismiss his rants.
In San Francisco this January, a federal trial is taking place to argue the legality of Proposition 8, a proposition that was passed in the California election in 2008 to ban gay marriage. Chief U.S.
In the library in my city, one can check out a wide selection of DVDs, from feature films, to documentaries, to foreign films, and whole seasons of a television series. One day I noticed a few DVDs of the series All In The Family.
A few months ago I decided to reread Henry David Thoreau's essay, On Civil Disobedience. I hadn't read it since college twenty something years ago, and kept running into references from people on how much this essay influenced them. Reading it, many years later, Thoreau's essay is a lot more subversive than I remember it being.
I'm not sure how I got on their email list, but over the past couple of months I've been receiving emails from 
