Put Away Your Hankies – a message from Michael Moore
Dear Friends, Enough of the handwringing! Enough of the doomsaying! Do I have to come there and personally calm you down? Stop with all the defeatism, OK? Bush IS a goner -- IF we all just quit our whining and bellyaching and stop shaking like a bunch of nervous...
Great Shows Tonight
Tonight I spend the evening in Wicker Park at these excellent events: The Sheathens perform as part of Estrojam 2004! Tuesday, Sept. 21 6:30 p.m. at Filter 1585 N. Milwaukee Ave. (north/damen/milwaukee) And then I'm going to see - Nice Peter Tuesday, Sept. 21 11:00...
I Love James Spader
CNN on the Emmy Awards last night: In a mild surprise, James Spader of "The Practice" won best actor in a drama, defeating "The Sopranos' " James Gandolfini and "Without a Trace's" Anthony La Paglia, who were considered the category's favorites. Spader's character is...
Hey, Let’s Go to Wisconsin!
I spent Saturday going up to Wisconsin and canvassing for John Kerry. I have leftist friends who don't think Kerry is going to do much better than Bush, and my heart still belongs to Dennis Kucinich, but I can also face reality and do what needs to be done. To me the...
My Dad: International Man of Mystery
In his retirement, my father (an almost-68-years-old, 5'6", quiet Mexican American man) has developed the tradition that every autumn he takes a trip to a part of the world he has never visited (my mother doesn't like to travel. Like me!). He chooses the country in...
Discharged
I was officially "discharged" from my last job, which means fired. It's okay. It's happened before, it might happen again (why not?). Here's how I've been doing. Discharged I curl myself around laziness twirling my time through sunny days and sleeping in celebrating...
Achieving an odd kind of peace of mind
(See yesterday's post for the Garrison Keillor piece I'm responding to.) So maybe Election Day comes and we've done our absolute best and the worst happens anyway: Bush gets a second term. Maybe (as Garrison Keillor says in his article below), the concentration of...
We’re Not in Lake Wobegon Anymore
The following was written by Garrison Keillor of "The Prairie Home Companion." It appeared in the August 26, 2004 issue of In These Times. We're Not in Lake Wobegon Anymore August 26, 2004 Something has gone seriously haywire with the Republican Party. Once, it was...
Scholarships for Young Women of Color
The following text is from the Third Wave website. I'm just passing along the information. Third Wave Scholarships Know of any young women of color (30 and under) activists, cultural workers, artists, etc. who are in school either part time/full time who want to apply...
Keep Hope Half-Conscious
Thanks to everyone who responded to my S.O.S. message yesterday. I got plenty of responses here and in private emails. While it sounds like some of you share my doubt and fear, most of you seem to have a firm grip on the optimistic opinion that George's supposed...
September 11th
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Kerry-Edwards: I’m afraid, so afraid
Is it all over? Is the double-digit lead George Bush attained after the Republican convention the beginning of the end? Is the American majority really going to re-elect one of the worst presidents in U.S. history because he seems more like someone they'd like to...