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I come at this a little differently than Eclectablog, who wrote about how white progressives responded to the disruption of regularly scheduled candidate questioning at the Netroots Nation 2015 conference in Phoenix, Arizona this week. I’ve been listening and...
“I wrote this book out of gratitude. Gratitude to my mother and father, who worked hard all their lives, and who died with very little. But they died knowing that their four kids were doing better than they did. And to them, that made them a success. I wrote this book...
Just a few stories of Gun Nuts Gone Wild in the past two weeks: A slow moving, overweight older man is caught on surveillance camera at a restaurant in North Carolina at the cashier’s counter when his gun fell out of his pocket and on to the floor. He picked it up...
I live in Los Angeles where it is possible to get involved in local government at a grassroots level through the neighborhood council system. Since Los Angeles is so big – we have a mayor with a large staff and 15 different city council members who...
