Month: October 2005

The Indictment trail

Click Here for readable Big Picture Dick and Don’s Cabal

Found at Tom Paine’s blog

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History repeats itself? What goes around comes around? Or Halloween eve.. We now have a new Tricky Dick.

Will Cheney be indicted?
I sure hope justice will do its duty.
Better late than never.

Truisms- ya gotta love ’em.

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This marvelous little soufflé was sent to me by my friend Elaine.  Elaine has always been a veritable fountain of the odd and obscure.  Whatever she sends, however, is always gold-stamp guaranteed to produce a smile.  As I live in a confederate state, she thought I might find it amusing.  I did.  So will you.

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“Birds do it, bees do it, Liberal Street Fighters do it, let’s do it, lets fall in love!”

Alexander Sanger was in town recently for a celebration of the 70th anniversary of the WI Chapter of Planned Parenthood, and is interviewed by Lisa Kaiser in the latest issue of Milwaukee’s independent paper, the Shepherd Express:

Shepherd: What aspects of your grandmother’s legacy are still alive in Planned Parenthood today?

Sanger: Her legacy is everywhere. She was a fighter who had to face down fundamentalist Protestants and the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church. She was intrepid and fearless and an advocate for those who were in desperate need of her services, who were disenfranchised, poor, girls who weren’t part of the system, who were immigrants, uninsured. These women’s needs are as great today as they were in my grandmother’s time. The services provided by Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin as well as in the rest of the country are vital to the well-being of women.

Shepherd: Have we made progress since her time?

Sanger: No, which is why I wrote the book. I think my grandmother would not be surprised by the state we find ourselves in. She always knew that resistance would be there fighting back, that we would have to fight to stand our ground and fight even harder to get ahead. She fought for the use of birth control. She had nothing to do with abortion.

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Today has been a tragic day. I received a phone call at 7 AM this morning from my friend, Wolverine Writer. WW was my college roommate, I was the best man at his wedding, and he runs the BooTrib store for us. Last night, at around 8:30 PM, his 20 year old daughter and her friend were broadsided by an 18-wheel truck. WW’s daughter died instantly. The last we heard, her friend was in critical condition.

I’ve known his daughter since she was seven years old. I have fond memories of taking her around New York City, showing her the Statue of Liberty, the World Trade Center, Greenwich Village, Central Park.

She was a beautiful girl, smart, sweet, inquisitive, with a good heart. She will be badly missed.

I don’t have much to say about this. Sometimes our loved ones die for no discernible reason. There is no moral component to it. It just is. And then we want to grab the world by the throat and insist it abide by some moral code, that it supply us with some reason or justification for the misfortune we encounter. And the world stares back, offering no defense.

Nicole meant the world to her father. She was one of the nicest people I have ever been fortunate enough to know. She was 20-years old and headed to a haunted house celebration.

WW wanted her to grow up to be an outstanding adult. I wanted that too.

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