8. Because the chances of beating Trump are now better than they were yesterday.
7. Because the chances of flipping the Senate are also better.
6. Because ditto the House.
5. Because Bernie’s impact on the Dems’ platform has started conversations which will move toward big shifts on some key issues.
Jimmie Lee Jackson: One Who Went Before If I could, I’d add another stone to the crowded cemetery rows here, bearing the name of Jimmie Lee Jackson. He was shot by an Alabama State Trooper in 1965, and died several days later. The same trooper-shooter killed another unarmed young black man in 1966. Forty-five years … Continue reading Jimmie Lee Jackson: One Who Went Before
The wait is over! The fabulous unique outdoor drama about Quakers & others joining enslaved people in their efforts to escape bondage in pre-Civil War North Carolina takes the stage for the premiere performance of its 22nd season tonight, July 7, showtime at 8 PM.
(If you can’t get there tonight, there are performances Friday and Saturday, then again on July 14-16, and six more after that before the limited run concludes on Saturday August 6.
More details including ticket prices & directions are here: http://www.snowcampoutdoortheatre.com/shows
Don’t miss it!
The Carolina Quaker Split: Two Targets Say, “No Thanks!” Last Month NCYM-FUM’s Representative session agreed to begin discussions on a possible plan to split the YM. But now two of the Meetings among those slated to be moved out of NCYM into the as yet uncreated new YM have firmly turned “Thumbs Down” on the … Continue reading The Carolina Quaker Split: Two Targets Say, “No Thanks!”
In Washington DC, after a book party in The big Florida Avenue Friends Meetinghouse there. The book was a collection of stories by Russian and American writers, put together by a joint committee, and supposed to be a contribution to ending the Cold War. This Was just before Gorbachev came in and turned all that upside down. Garrison had contributed a story, and showed up at the party.
After I shook his hand, we both leaned over the refreshment table, and I Saw that it was just the two of us there for the moment; everyone else was in Scattered clusters, many of them murmuring in Russian.
I Figured I only had a couple minutes, so I pounced, and asked the question that had stayed with me all the years I had been listening tomthe show android eading his stuff.
It was the question that he & all U.S. Males of his generation had to answer. Including me. (If you’re of that generation, or think you’re familiar with it (us), think for a minute and see if you can guess what it was . . . .