Why Protest?
I know a lot of people who attended Proposition 8 protests last weekend. Time will tell how effective they were, but I think it would be helpful to remember what could or could not be accomplished by...
View ArticleWhat, No Parade?
Apparently, despite its prominence in the Civil Rights Movement, Birmingham doesn’t have a parade on Martin Luther King Day like Dallas and Fort Worth (each) do. Not that I didn’t enjoy sleeping in a...
View ArticleWhere Was the Best Place to Watch the Inauguration?
If you were in Atlanta, probably the big gathering at Centennial Olympic Park, but if you couldn’t make it into town, you’d be hard pressed to beat a warm house with a big TV, which is what we ended up...
View ArticleEverything I Know about Desire I Learned from Politics
[First in a series of Creating Change follow-ups…] It’s only natural that the scope of my desires should expand as I am feeling more politically active than at any time since I left D.C. Both...
View ArticleAll My Old Haunts…
I had a poetic opening, but that part of my brain has been lost to logistics. It was a hard weekend — not without highlights, but they were diffuse, like a bright lamp in thick, close fog. You didn’t...
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