KW: Some emotional confusion–I don’t know if I am teary eyed because Mary Travers died, or because the ending of Puff the Magic Dragon got to me. Though, I know, either way, it is to the credit of a beautiful woman, her craft, and her commitment to love, peace, joy and struggle. (excerpt from) New […]
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Random thoughts on Obama’s school speech
The full text of the speech, as released by the White House previously, is: here. Kimberly writes: In my house, we are just not amused by status quo politicians. So, I tried not have a lot of hot feelings either way about Obama making a speech for school children, or the right wing response to […]
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