Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities has come to my mind this week. As billionaires and the French government pledge money to rebuild Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, the Yellow Vest protests continue. While I do not condone vandalism and violence, the underlying circumstances that spurred the protests nearly six months ago have yet …
Category: Politics
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Jan 13 2019
Lyrics to Live By
The service at my church today was about immigration and the current situation. Verses two and four of the opening hymn were highly resonant to the congregation. Here they are: Our world is one world. The thoughts we think affect us all. The way we build our attitudes, with love or hate, we build a …
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Dec 07 2018
Paris Packing
We’re traveling to Paris for a quick vacation. This was a spur-of-the-moment decision and came together surprisingly fast. Julian made the plane reservations and rented the apartment we were in last year within a 48-hour span. Going to Paris this year may be a little different, thanks to the “yellow vest” riots. President Macron increased …
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Dec 01 2018
Compassion and Children
I believe that the status of children is a key performance indicator (to use an MBA term) of an administration. Children are faring very poorly these days. A few examples: Separation of immigrant children from their parents. Housing these children in facilities that are eerily reminiscent of the World War II-era internment camps. Tear-gassing small …
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Nov 04 2018
Trying to Find the Words
The events of the last two weeks have left many folks numb from shock. First there was the series of pipe bombs sent to people and institutions that have criticized the current administration. A white man gunned down two black shoppers at a Kroger store in Kentucky. A man killed two women at a yoga …
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Oct 26 2018
Time to Vote
Washington is a vote by mail state. The ballots arrived last week. While Julian was making dinner Wednesday night, I filled out my ballot and put it in the mailbox. He completed his ballot and sent it the next day. The beauty of voting by mail is that you can fill out your ballot in …
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Sep 26 2018
It All Goes Back to This
Let’s hijack the Wayback Machine from Mr. Peabody and travel back to 1998. Impeachment was in the air. Congressional Republicans seized on the report by Kenneth Starr’s team and impeached President Bill Clinton for lying under oath about an extramarital affair. The trial failed to convict Clinton, but there was collateral damage. Three Republicans who …
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Jun 20 2018
The Damage is Done
The current administration has apparently reversed its stance on family separation at the Mexican border. While the news sounds good, the damage has already been done. Over 2000 children have already been separated from their parents. There is no plan to reunite these families in the near future. Tracking these children, especially the babies and …
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Jun 17 2018
Common Threads
Q: What do the following eras have in common? Nazi Germany Argentina under the military dictatorship of the 1970’s The current administration A: Forced separation of parents and children. Throughout history, despots knew that breaking up families was a key strategy to vanquish dissidents or undesirables. The Nazis separated children and parents to send them …
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Apr 07 2018
First In, Last Out
My maternal grandfather was, by his own admission, an ornery old cuss. He dropped out of school as a teenager, but he had the rural equivalent of street smarts. One of his observations that’s stuck with me for decades is that farmers are the first to get into an economic depression and the last to …
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