I’ve been forced (more or less) to start a second blog, The Fifth Column, which will document my political thoughts and attitudes.  I can’t believe that I’m starting a second blog when I can barely keep up with this one, but it seems like I’m spending a lot of time here talking about all my [...]

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“Grading and Packing Onions…” from the Library of Congress’ Flickr stream.

One Home
William Stafford
Mine was a midwest home–you can keep your world.
Plain black hats rode the thoughts that made our code.
We sang hymns in the house; the roof was near God.
The light bulb that hung in the pantry made a wan light,
but we could read [...]

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PPSD put up another one of my videos today.  It was really important to me to include the voices of men in these videos– I find that all too often pro-choice is seen as women-only.  I don’t think that this is true but I do recognize that the movement needs to get a little better [...]

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After my morning volunteer shift Jon and I headed over to the Smithsonian’s exhibition “Jim Henson’s Fantastic World.”  Jim Henson and all his characters were such a central part of my childhood from Sesame Street to Fraggle Rock and The Muppet Show.  To this day my favorite Christmas movie of all time is The Muppet [...]

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