Month: November 2008

Willing my car onto the “Limited Access – Pickups Only” road not too far from my house, I make a pilgrimage tonight to an old, familiar place. It’s bitter cold and–out on the prairie–utterly dark, save for the stars. A thin dusting of snow covers the ground, hiding rocks and ruts. Still, here and there, […]

Good lord. I haven’t posted in so long that my own blog logged me out. My own blog! Hrm… Well, it’s been a busy few weeks. In the wake of the election … all of the work that piled up while obsessively reading every election blog and Sarah Palin news tidbit worked its way around, […]

I think the stars are shining just a little bit brighter tonight. Perhaps its merely some anomaly of the cosmos. Or, perhaps, it’s the shining of a renewed spirit of hope–hope for America, and hope for a better, brighter future. Tonight, I pledge myself to a renewed spirit of service–a renewed dedication to making America […]

Go vote! On your way to the polls, do me a favor: pull out your cellphone, and call everyone in your address book, ask them to vote, and to call their friends on the way. Not certain where to vote, or what to do if something goes wrong? Here’s some info, below, from MoveOn.org: Election […]

I received this “chart” in my email today from the McCain-Palin campaign:This chart in an outright assault on the truth. It wouldn’t even be true in the McCain-Palin “fantasy-land” where both seem to be living–where truth is based on belief, not reality. Don’t believe me? Let’s do a reality check: TaxesBoth McCain and Obama will […]