I stumbled upon this scene, a constructive use of a weekend afternoon, while in town for my writer’s circle on Sunday. After hearing from a friend in the Café Del Sol that some people were holding up Obama signs in the Courthouse parking lot, I jogged down to see for myself. In the five minutes […]
Imagine where our country would be today with energy independence if Ronald Reagan hadn’t torn down the Photovoltaic solar panels that Jimmy Carter put on the White House and if he hadn’t followed that by racking up one of the biggest deficits in history. Imagine where we’d be now with energy independence if Vice President […]
“Sarah Palin has many virtues. If you wanted someone to destroy a corrupt establishment, she’d be your woman. But the constructive act of governance is another matter. She has not been engaged in national issues, does not have a repertoire of historic patterns and, like President Bush, she seems to compensate for her lack of […]
I’ve always respected John McCain. Although I understand that campaigning candidates tend to adapt their talking points to please their base of support, my respect for McCain wavered as he flip flopped on issues during the presidential nomination campaign. I don’t agree with McCain on many issues, but I was pleased to see at the […]
Although John McCain has voted with President Bush 90% of the time, it’s his Vice-Presidential running mate, Sarah Palin, who is most like Bush. You would think that after eight years of enduring the most unpopular president in modern times, Americans would balk at an anti-science candidate who calls the war in Iraq “a task […]
There were some who tried to draft former Virginia Governor Mark Warner for the 2008 Presidential Election. But Warner decided to run for the U.S. Senate, hoping to replace Senator John Warner, who is retiring. It was also rumored that Warner was on a Democratic list as a Vice Presidential possibility before his Senate run […]
Animated Woman: If Obama is president the black people are gonna take over. They’ll line us white people up and shoot us. Postal Clerk: I think you should go home and go back to bed so you can wake up again.
I wish all the billboards across the country read: “Give back the votes your brother stole” and the poets would shout from every street corner, “The emperor wears no clothes” … ~ Colleen So my poet friend Mara, a Hillary Clinton supporter, knew she might change her mind and vote for Barack Obama in the […]
1. It was a mother and daughter date of historic proportions. My friend Mara and her young daughter Kyla (pictured) attended Sunday’s pre-primary rally for Hillary Clinton, our country’s first female presidential candidate who has a chance of getting the Democratic nomination. 2. A crowd of nearly 2,000 took an hour to slowly file into […]
I want President Bush to have a dream … like the one that Ebenezer Scrooge had … I want him to be visited by the ghosts of Iraqi children … who cry out “But mankind was your business” A little Bach flower remedy for calming the nerves and some deep breathing was in order. “I’m […]
The following was written as a spoken word poem in November, 2002, before the US invaded Iraq. It was an emotional and cathartic outpouring of expression which took place over course of a three day solo retreat in a cabin at Fairystone Park in Stuart, Virginia. Later, it was read at several Peace Rallies, open […]
Bye-bye, Miss American pie … Drove my chevy to the levee … but the levee was dry … I picked up the CERC Museletter mail at our local post office, dropped it on the front seat of my car, glanced over to it while turning the key in the ignition, and noticed the front page […]
