Sunday Morning Coming Down

In the United States, Election Day is the annual day set by law for the general elections of federal public officials. It is statutorily set as "the Tuesday next after the first Monday in the month of November " or "the first Tuesday after November 1". The earliest possible date is November 2, and the latest possible date is November 8 . It might be convenient for a sitting president to postpone an election day to another day when the economy is better,  folks forget about scandals, or folks forget about avoidable mistakes. In more "normal" times I could almost imagine this suggestion being made and even considered "rational".  Public heath reasons at this time make standing in long lines to vote problematic at best. To further complicate matters there seem to be issues with Russia and China wanting to meddle in this election cycle to further divide and weaken us. Lot's of folks want tinker with our system of voting.  Women won the right to v...

A few days ago I read that if you really felt that Black Lives Matter you should be against abortion on demand. “Those who are most vocal about abortion and abortion laws are my white brothers and sisters, and yet many of them don’t care about the plight of the poor, the plight of the immigrant, the plight of African-Americans,” said the Rev. Dr. Luke Bobo, a minister from Kansas City, Mo., who is vehemently opposed to abortion. “My argument here is, let’s think about the entire life span of the person.”

Everybody has a collective history and they have their own individual history and they have multiple histories with family as parents, relatives, children friends, neighbors, co-workers, and they histories as consumers, producers, or responders.  The term family is also one that could be it's subset of histories because it is such a big launching pad. For the record I believe in  Black Lives Matter as an organization and that Black Lives Matter now.  Maybe it wasn't always that way because I grew up in Bensenville, Illinois.  My parents were naturalized citizens from Canada and my grandparents were Icelandic-Canadian-Americans.  On reflection my family connections were about as "white bread" as possible.  Today's Ball of Confusion Maybe if Hillary Clinton hadn't called out 1/2 of everyone who weren't  going to vote for her under any circumstances " as deplorable" the world would be a different place.  In retrospect the last presidential election...