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It's been slow around here lately. Traffic is way down the last week or so. I know I've been super busy with campaign and work related stuff. I hope everyone has been pounding the pavement for their candidates and issues.
Let's get some diaries up and going. I'll be out of pocket much of the next couple of days, but will try and get some diaries up as time allows.
Maybe this is just the calm before the storm as we get ready to turn hard into election season.
As things change, the more they remain the same. Food, family and the Detroit Lions again on Thanksgiving. At least they are a little improved.
Are you ready for Black Friday? Is that a racist term my wife asked me last night? Any thoughts. I have no answer, I'm sure the answer is in a Chris Rock routine.
Here's a good story, appropriate for Thanksgiving, that a friend sent me
It sounds like the start of a joke: a rabbi, a minister and a Muslim sheik walk into a restaurant.
The three say they became close not by avoiding or glossing over their conflicts, but by running straight at them.
But there they were, Rabbi Ted Falcon, the Rev. Don Mackenzie and Sheik Jamal Rahman, walking into an Indian restaurant, and afterward a Presbyterian church. The sanctuary was full of 250 people who came to hear them talk about how they had wrestled with their religious differences and emerged as friends.
They call themselves the "interfaith amigos." And while they do sometimes seem more like a stand-up comedy team than a trio of clergymen, they know they have a serious burden in making a case for interfaith understanding in a country reeling after a Muslim Army officer at Fort Hood, Tex., was charged with opening fire on his fellow soldiers, killing 13.
I'm in danger of today being my worst day ever in terms of number of hits on the site. I only posted once besides this and that was just a couple of hours ago.
I just learned that Harvey Milk died 30 years ago on this day. Here is a very thoughtful diary about Milk at Daily Kos .
Until the last few years, I knew very little about Harvey Milk. In fact I had never even heard of Harvey Milk and his courage until college. Even then, he was only a blip in the political science classes and sociology classes that I took. Really I learned little about Harvey Milk then and more about the Harvey Milk school in New York for gay high school students.
Later my knowledge of Harvey Milk became the fact that he was a gay city councilman (Board of Supervisors) shot by another member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. I'll admit, I'm a pretty intellectually curious person and always ready to learn about new events or people in history that I've just learned about. However, as a straight male I never thought that there was a Harvey Milk story that would interest me. I had assumed that Harvey Milk being a gay member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors was nothing really all that unusual.
Boy was I wrong. Harvey Milk was a trailblazer of very historical proportions. Harvey Milk was a Jackie Robinson of sorts. Harvey Milk is one of the most known and unknown icons of the 20th century depending on who you are talking with. From what I am learning, I think that Harvey Milk's importance has been narrowed in scope. Yes, he is a martyr for gay rights and gay issues. But he's also someone that showed how neighborhoods can affect city politics. Milk had a lot to do with cities across America moving from at-large representation to district and neighborhood representation.
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