Daily Archives: 09/17/2011

(Community Matters) While the GOP seems to promote men & women with great intellectual & character flaws hoping for practical achievement, do Democrats demand perfection from human  beings?

A journey I went on this summer – 14mm unemployed Americans, another 9mm involuntarily underemployed, another 3mm “marginally attached,” which means so long unemployed they’ve quit looking for work – I considered throwing in the towel. Is it right for me to continue fighting to elect a Democrat, to reelect a President when I know the other side is stepping on any efforts we promote for recovery?

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(Community Matters) Quick trip with ST who’ll be in London for the week. Met up in Newark (he’d been working in Princeton all week) and flew over together (an unexpected treat since originally were flying over on two different flights).

Saw One Man, Two Guvnors, Richard Bean’s play directed by the RNT’s Nicholas Hytner at the Royal National Theatre. ST loved it – a bit too Monty Pothon-ish humor for me. Yes, of course I know Charles Christie & Michael Mitchell would have loved it! 🙂