Monthly Archive for March, 2004

No school because of Bush Fundraiser

As if we need fur­ther evi­dence that the pres­i­dent is truly mis­guided, I read that today Mr. Bush has come to Boston for a fundraiser, forc­ing the Secret Ser­vice to shut down sev­eral city streets.

As Mr. Bush col­lects checks at $2000 a head, for one hour of work, a K-8 public school was forced on 1-day notice to cancel classes today because they “could not guar­an­tee timely pick-​up of stu­dents at dis­missal time.”

This seems shame­ful for the “No-child-left-behind” Pres­i­dent, who is him­self the son of the so-​called “education” President…

But, maybe I should look at this from the point of view of the stu­dents — they got a day off from school. Are the Repub­li­cans are trying to ingra­ti­ate them­selves to our little ones, by can­celling school for a day?

March 25, 2004 » Tags: . » 4 Comments

$25 is all it takes…

John KerryI just gave John Kerry $25.

I ended up giving Howard Dean a not-​insignificant amount of money, (at least to me), and I feel it was money well spent. I’m going to do so for John Kerry each month.

You should, too. Bush is on the attack.

March 12, 2004 » Tags: , . » 6 Comments

Welcome CSS Vault Visitors!

Thanks to Andy for sub­mit­ting this blog for recog­ni­tion at CSS Vault. I’m hon­ored to be included among the many inspir­ing sites.

(I hope it doesn’t matter that I’ve more or less had the same layout and design for more than a year now.) But, thank you very much.

March 10, 2004 » Tags: , , . » 5 Comments

New Scoot

Pres­ley bought her scooter this past week­end, from a friend-of-a-friend in Maine.

Looks pretty sweet, and she posted to her weblog for the first time this year. wow.

March 9, 2004 » Tags: . » 1 Comment

Back to Detroit

I’m off to Detroit for one day, to attend my cousin’s funeral. It’s such a sad thing, even though we weren’t close in age.

Bob was a great guy, who was full of all kinds of odd and inter­est­ing knowl­edge. And he was always will­ing to listen or offer up honest advice… even when I was an obnox­ious teenager who thought he knew everything.

I love ya, man.

March 2, 2004 » Tags: . » Closed

JFK Library & Museum

My Aunt and Uncle were in Boston this past week­end, so we decided to check out the John F. Kennedy Library & Museum.

Designed by I.M. Pei

The Harbor

Designed by I.M. Pei, the build­ing is truly inspir­ing, despite it’s chilly, geo­met­ric parts. In my opin­ion, it is the only Pei build­ing worth it’s salt — cer­tainly the only one out of his many projects in Boston.

I’ve never been nos­tal­gic for JFK  – he only passed some­thing like 25% of the bills he sent to Capi­tol Hill… which tells me he was more con­cerned with main­tain­ing Camelot, than push­ing hard on dif­fi­cult leg­is­la­tion like Civil Rights and the War on Poverty.

How­ever, after tour­ing the many exhibits and films, I’ve come to respect the man — the manner in which the Cuban Mis­sile Crisis was han­dled alone merits recon­sid­er­a­tion. And, in the wake of our youth­ful excite­ment sur­round­ing Howard Dean, and his mes­sage, I can only imag­ine JFK’s impact on young people in 1960.

As Bill Clin­ton says in the exhibit, JFK put a lot of dif­fi­cult issues on the table — which then needed to be worked out over the course of the sixties.

March 2, 2004 » Tags: . » 1 Comment