circles

“change is good…but only right before or right after…never when you’re in it.”

creativity and play

dream delay

it’s a beautiful day. not sure the arc completely bends toward justice with an obama win. but it is a slight bend.

and a slight bend toward justice is an improvement from the sick bend towards hell that took place over the last years. a simple end to a nightmare.

so, i’m grateful. for those who hope. and for those who worked their asses off. to make good dreams come true.

tonight, lina and i will relax and enjoy david.

the night before

on the night before, i could not make or read a better argument.

For me, if Obama is elected, it will feel more like a simple end to a nightmare. The earth has been scorched these past seven years. No Heaven awaits. Just an end to some sort of Hell. -Andrew Sullivan

hero

i vividly remember meeting this american hero of mine at an east st. paul mexican restaurant.

fr. francisco and i were having breakfast when he walked in. we both stood up to greet, thank and shake the hand of senator paul wellstone. here was the man who taught me to be proud of wearing the label of liberal american. the label that stands for the ideal of freedom and justice for all.

thank you paul! we do miss you. i wish you were here today. cheering on and helping all of those folks working hard to get out the vote for barack.

in honor of you senator wellstone, we hope history will be made in a few weeks. we wish you were here to see it take place.

It’s easier to be a liberal today, to be a progressive, to be proud. But there was a time when it wasn’t. When liberalism in defense of peace was mocked, and moderation in service of imperialism was praised. In those days, it was hard to be a liberal. It must have been hard to be Paul Wellstone. He never showed it, though. He liked to quote Marcia Timmel. “I’m so small and the darkness is so great,” she said. “We must light a candle,” Wellstone would reply. He was ours. Would that he was here to enjoy the dawn.-ezra klein

is friday, no?

pues si…

…and to celebrate, some politics with a brain. after a week of one too many tongue talking pit bulls with go-go boots.

first, well, first things first (not sure if this show is part of the “elite” media according to the repubs…)

and then, beware—the eastern media elite…

and now, beware—the eastern media elite is coming to get you…