Liberal-minded citizens have proven that they can influence life in this country even without winning an election if they make a clear and strong case for certain issues.
Category Archives: activism
EIGHTY-TWO YEARS OF WAR AND PEACE
The lessons learned from Vietnam and Iraq/Afghanistan are too valuable to be lost…or should be.
AMERICA AND THE IRAQ WAR: a review of A STRANGER IN YOUR OWN CITY, by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
One point of the book is summed up on page 126. An Iraqi man torn between warring factions says, “‘I am between two fires, my Sunni neighbours who would kill me if I don’t go out with them into the street, and the Shia militia.’ He paused before correcting himself. ‘No, three fires—there are the Americans, too.'”
HOW NOT TO KILL YOURSELF, by Clancy Martin
A definitive, comprehensive, ultimately optimistic investigation into the suicidal mind.
THE DAY BEFORE ELECTION DAY
Door-knocking in an excellent way to meet fellow citizens you would never meet otherwise.
DEAR PARKLAND
Dear Parkland…and all the others: There’s a peculiar notion afoot that only survivors and experts can write about important issues, but I take exception to that. I was not present in Parkland or in Sandy Hook and have never seen up close a child bleeding to death with a gaping wound from a paramilitary firearm,Continue reading “DEAR PARKLAND”
REVIEW: THE NOISE OF TIME, by Julian Barnes
I love the slyness, insider insinuations, hints, the elegance and sophistication of Barnes’s writing in The Noise of Time. He begins with a surreal scene in a train station going toward Moscow. We don’t know who is on the train platform; the character is “he” for twenty pages of panic, degradation, fear, memory, black humor,Continue reading “REVIEW: THE NOISE OF TIME, by Julian Barnes”
Lament of a Modern American Woman – please join the choir
Today, American men are sitting in the waiting room while the women give birth to a new nation.
Dachau Didn’t Move Me
We didn’t tell the Irish, “Time’s up! They’re growing potatoes again.