diary of a mad campaigner (part 3 in a series)
as promised, i'm keeping y'all up to speed on my first ever campaign adventure. today i leave for galvenston, texas, by car, with a 70-year old obama supporter who has always wanted to see the country...
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i am 930 miles en route to galveston, texas, from los angeles, california, for team obama. it’s my first ever campaign adventure and it is already one for the books.
View ArticleTake Back America Tour
July 4th weekend limps to a close, hung over and sweating in the humidity. American flags were hung from the houses with care. Ice cold thirty-packs disappeared from the nation’s shelves wrapped in...
View ArticleSouth-Central PA -- A Road Trip
We had to drive up to Hanover from our home in Northern Virginia, to visit friends who have had to close their small business, declare bankruptcy, let the bank foreclose on their home, and are getting...
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#sekritarmy domination (It's the pooties, woozles and critters)
World domination is only one step away. Our #sekritarmy troops are coming to a town near you.
View ArticleAction: Worried about the West Coast?
There's a general consensus, except on Fox News, that the radiation from Fukushima will not reach the United States. You can read any number of informative diaries on why Fukushima is not Chernobyl....
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My Blue Heaven: A MI Roadtrip (psst This Helps)
I don't know about you, but for me nothing quite stirs the fires like setting out on the road for unknown territory. The adventure, the discoveries, the possibilities! Are you sad, angry, feeling...
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Taking off cross-country you plan a bit, of course. I just had a destination really, the tip of Long Island, New York. I knew I wanted to visit Greeley, Colorado because Horace Greeley is an ancestor;...
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Road Trip Photo Diary
I left Nebraska this morning and went down into Kansas. I finally stopped in Hays to walk around. Sold like ten books in an hour, one place was a hip little restaurant where the wait staff were getting...
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I drove all night. Just outside Kansas City, I experienced the most intense rain I ever have driving. The few other cars and I were reduced to twenty-five miles an hour, and still it was a little...
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Sunday morning my friend in St. Louis took me out to Queeny park, named after one of the founders of the Monsanto corporation. Nice little park.I left St. Louis about noon, and took off for upstate New...
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So I crashed out in my car in Albany, woke up, and drove south. I spoke with a very nice lady at one of the rest stops off the turnpike, and there were a number of towns I could land in, and I chose...
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I'm really loving the Hudson river valley and its towns. Everyone is as cool and receptive as ever. Book sales are going well and have been steady throughout the trip--between 10 and 20 a day (before...
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So I left Woodstock in the rain, and headed over to Bridgeport, Connecticut to catch the ferry to Long Island ($51 for the ferry--yowchy!).Landed at Port Jefferson late. Then drove out to Greenport to...
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So I spent Saturday in the Sag Harbor Library to work on the brief for my federal case, then drove east towards the Hamptons. I took little winding back roads and found a really nice beach. I was...
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Road Trip Photo Diary
When I left Santa Barbara, Montauk was the destination. I made the trip out to the lighthouse yesterday.
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One of the most profound ideas of all is that all of nature is metaphor to the mind. Emerson said it, yet I wouldn’t be surprised if someone earlier had said the same. C.G. Jung said, "Man lives in...
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"Mad as Hell Doctors"
Embark on Cross Country Care-A-Van to Demand Single-Payer from CongressFrustrated with the health care 'options' coming out of Washington, D.C., six "Mad as Hell" Oregon physicians are taking an...
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#sekritarmy on the road to Grandma's house (pooties & woozles ride along)
The #sekritarmy performed inspections before embarking on our latest mission, a trip to Grandma's house. The Communications staff prepared our equipment so we could send out orders to the troops in...
View ArticleCelebrity Bug
After we rescued Xoco, in that window between being mostly healed up and being old enough to spay, my son got married. His bride’s huge immediate family (she has either 14 or 17 older siblings, mostly...
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