Warning: Rant.
I have been up since 5:30 this morning. I'm a night person, but I couldn't sleep for the anger. Anger at the travesty that currently passes for politics in Washington, D.C. Anger at the Kavanaugh "hearing" and "investigation" (quotes around both of those, please). Anger at party-line politicians who just "go along". Anger at Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell.
Anger, mostly, at "Republicans".
No, NOT "anger at Republicans." I want to make this clear. Anger at "Republicans". Quotes around the name only. Those using that name in Washington right now are not really Read More
Ruminations of a Feisty Old Quaker
No, Not Republicans
October 5, 2018
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What I learned in Washington, D.C.
June 25, 2018
This is a story from my long-past lobbying days. I'm telling it now because it has important implications for the current political season.
The story starts on a late April Monday in 1973, with a 6:00 AM phone call from Diane Meyer, Read More
The story starts on a late April Monday in 1973, with a 6:00 AM phone call from Diane Meyer, Read More
We are better people than this.
January 8, 2018
We are not so poor in material goods that we cannot share with others, nor so poor in spirit that we will refuse to share.
We are not so shallow that we care only for wealth, nor so short-sighted that we will destroy the only Earth we have to obtain it.
We are not so fearful that we must build walls against immigrants, nor so intolerant that we will shut our doors against neighbors who are not exactly like the rest of us. Read More
We are not so shallow that we care only for wealth, nor so short-sighted that we will destroy the only Earth we have to obtain it.
We are not so fearful that we must build walls against immigrants, nor so intolerant that we will shut our doors against neighbors who are not exactly like the rest of us. Read More