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After military service, I worked variously in petroleum refining, for myself as an architectural illustrator just in time for electronic media to displace the ink and watercolor images that were my specialty, and doing electronic technical drawing.
To more important issues, I married lucky, which is to say once and forever, and after thirty years still marvel that she keeps me around. We have two children, a daughter with a daughter of her own, and a son who is just coming into his majority.
My wife did tire of my shouting at the television set and suggested that if I feel so strongly about politics, I should be involved. That is when I started a prolific run of commentary on this site interspersed with a few articles, and joined my local Democratic Party organization. To my wife's chagrin, I still shout at the television set.
I believe that the liberal values I hold are the result of a proper upbringing, and those values are simply what my mother, like most mothers, taught to their children. Among those values was a love of country and an admonishment to stand up for those who couldn't stand up for themselves. I still hold the part of my military oath to "defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic", to be sacred.
I keep the Jr. in my name to spare my father, whom I am fortunate enough to still have in this world, from being misidentified as responsible for my rants.
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Monday, November 15, 2010
What Banner Will Unite Progressives? SHARE
If we want to migrate to the same place, we'd better agree on a compass.
What Banner Will Unite Progressives? SHARE
If we want to migrate to the same place, we'd better agree on a compass.
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Thursday, May 6, 2010
Why do you want to tell the new bums when you throw the old bums out? SHARE
How does one redecorate a house of congress?
Why do you want to tell the new bums when you throw the old bums out? SHARE
How does one redecorate a house of congress?
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Thursday, July 2, 2009
Build Your Own Senate SHARE
It's time for the U.S. Senate's indirect constituency to exert its influence!
Build Your Own Senate SHARE
It's time for the U.S. Senate's indirect constituency to exert its influence!
