I begin each work day by compiling a set of clips. It’s a task that fell in my lap a few years ago and it’s probably my least favorite daily duty and the task I would most like to hand to someone else. (I love my job. I really do. So I’ll keep doing this [...]
While I was at a campaign event this weekend, a woman from New Jersey began talking to me. I was knitting in the round with circular needles. The woman, who said she has only knit scarves and a few baby sweaters, began asking me lots of questions about what I was doing. Then, she asked [...]
I begin each work day by compiling a set of clips. It’s a task that fell in my lap a few years ago and it’s probably my least favorite daily duty and the task I would most like to hand to someone else. (I love my job. I really do. So I’ll keep doing this [...]
Blog reader Kevin told me about this new initiative in Mexico City aimed at lowering crime on the city’s subways by distributing free books to subway passengers. The article doesn’t say exactly how giving a pickpocket a book will make her not pick someone’s pocket. “We are convinced that when people read, people change,” said [...]
Diversion: My report of campaign events for John Edwards and Wesley Clark in New Hampshire on January 25, 2004. I hope this will be my last disgression about campaign events for a while (and I’m sure you do, too). Now I’ve seen or heard all of the current candidates in person except Al Sharpton. Addendum: [...]
I went to New Hampshire with three friends on Sunday, January 25, 2004, to attend campaign events for John Edwards and Wesley Clark. John Edwards We arrived at the junior high school in Nashua about ten minutes early. We went into the school cafeteria where a crowd had already gathered. The average age of the [...]
Political diversion: Here’s a link to my notes from three campaign events in New Hampshire.
Schliesslich! Etwas gut, dass von Deutsch handelt!
Michael Feldman, Jay McCarthy, and I met in New Hampshire for a round of campaign events involving John Kerry, Dennis Kucinich, and Joseph Lieberman on Saturday, January 24, 2004. John Kerry Michael and I began the day by going to a hockey game in Manchester featuring John Kerry. When we were near the rink, we [...]
Diversion: So far, I only have a few details from Somerville’s Ward 5 caucus. Katie Wallace (chairwoman of the Somerville Commission for Women and a member of the Progressive Democrats of Somerville) and Denise Provost (alderwoman-at-large for the city) have been elected. I think 5 men and 3 more women were selected, as well as [...]