As others have written, Mildred Jeter Loving died last Friday. She and her late husband Richard were co-plaintiffs in Loving v. Virginia, which in 1967 struck down the remaining miscegenation (anti-mixed-ethnicity marriage) laws.
That case has long given me hope that Hubby and I might enjoy legal marriage without having to move to the one […]
Dan Harper challenged me — I forget if it was on his blog or mine — to name some options to protesting, since I think that most public protest today is ineffective, self-aggrandizing or both.
I mentioned this to John Wonderlich — one of my terribly clever office mates and Program Director of the Open […]
Let me quite plain: the first thing I thought when I saw this is “What the h* is he running for? Manchurian Candidate in Chief?” No, that’s neither nice nor fair, so I offer the thought with caveats.
But in 2008, I’d rather not re-fight the Vietnam War by proxy. And I’d rather not fight […]
The buzz today was less about oil touching $108 a barrel than New York governor (and Clinton superdelegate) Eliot Spitzer touching — er — something else. And doing the deed in my fair city!
Not only here, but at the nearby Mayflower Hotel. Here’s the Universalist tie-in: the Universalist General Convention in 1935 met at the […]
United Church of Christ minister and blogger Chuck Currie considers who instigated the IRS probe of the United Church of Christ, following Barack Obama’s speech (on faith) at the last General Synod.
Sure I like the political message, but just as much or more I like this pro-Obama clip for the upcoming Texas primary because it reminds me of the Tejano music I enjoyed when I attened seminary in Fort Worth.
Well, I called it wrong with respect to Obama support in my District of Columbia precinct, the 16th.
1270 people voted, a 45.45% turnout.
Of these, 1201 voted in the Democratic primary. Yes, D.C. is a tad lopsided politically.
Barack Obama got 703, or 58.53%. That’s close to the ward-wide […]
Don’t you love election season? Especially the maddening whisper campaigns which on one hand denounce Sen. Obama as a Islamicist Manchurian candidate — if you’ve gotten one of those emails, do let me know — and on the other denounce his church (Trinity UCC, Chicago) as some kind of black racist stronghold. It’s enough to […]
A lovely, sunny day in Washington, D.C. today and people in the Logan Circle area were out enjoying dining, shopping and having a promenade. Interestingly, but not surprisingly, Obama campaign workers were out leafleting, holding signs and reminding passers-by that our primary is Tuesday. In the neighborhood walk that followed, I saw several (apartment-)house signs, […]
D.C., Maryland and Virginia — and other states — will be voting in presidential primaries next week, so I shall wish you a happy Mardi Gras instead. (A Trader Joe’s fiber muffin is no substitute for king cake.) I lived several of my childhood years in suburban New Orleans so well recall the day, […]
