Miscellaneous Musings

I babysat my 2 year old granddaughter last night. She is such a cutie, and I always enjoy spending time with any of my grandchildren. They are not all easy children, and they have not had easy lives. We seem to take life the hard way somehow, and yet we go forward. Except for my one poor son, who somehow lost his ability to hold on, but I think that was a temporary lapse, and if he hadn't had the ability to leave this world, he would have stayed and been okay. I have him on my mind often, and he has interrupted my sleep the last couple of nights. I wish I could relive that one day, and maybe a few others, and let him know how very much I love him.

New Responsibility

I have accepted a new responsibility. There is a rather informal group, centered around living liberally, that meets in different cities called drinking liberally. Our group here in Charleston has been rather quiet for a month or so, and in the need for regrouping I was asked if I would be interested in helping revive it and keep it going. I always have enjoyed hanging out and talking politics and life with this group, and so agreed to help. It mostly involves writing an email every week and going out to eat pizza and drink with like minded friends. If this sounds appealing, you should go the national website and look for a chapter near you. It's a great way to keep your spirits up, when you think there aren't any other liberals around.

Frightening Children

I got involved in a facebook discussion last night, and it was truly frightening. Of course, facebook is overpopulated with high school and college students, so that weighs into the naivete of the conversation that was happening. The original question posed that drew me in was whether the telecom companies should get retroactive immunity for cooperating with the warrantless surveillance of American citizen. Being the liberal that I am of course I answered no. They should be sued within an inch of their corporate solvency, as far as I am concerned. But I noticed that someone had started a thread that asserted that the "libs" answering no to the question had misread it. I started reading and ended up posting, and I realize I would never change the mind of the confused boy who started the thread, but I hoped I could at least make some of the other young people think about the issue. The reason I say it was frightening is because so many of the young people involved in the discussion were willing to give up their civil liberties at the whim of the president in order to be "safe", one even going as far as seeming to want the president to have total power. I hope they aren't representative of the next generation.

Craig Ferguson

Craig Ferguson is a lovely man, and very funny. I didn't see this when it aired on his show, and I happened to see it today on youtube. I miss my own father terribly, and could relate to this and thought many others could also.