Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-22

Gas stock was great. Roxanne Pauline and friends are the best organizers in the state # Conference call on the future of progressive politics in PA! Today! Join us at 7:00 pm. Call in number: 213 289 5450 Access code 472065 # Powered by Twitter Tools Continue reading

Memorial Day, the old-fashioned way

Memorial Day was a big deal in the village in which I grew up, Liberty, NY. And thinking about the difference between the Memorial Day celebrations of my youth, and the non-celebration of this holiday today, makes me not so much nostalgic for the past but concerned about our future. Continue reading

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-30

@fivethirtyeight make sure fan is going on when laptop heats up in reply to fivethirtyeight # @fivethirtyeight check vents and gently blow them out if blocked in reply to fivethirtyeight # Powered by Twitter Tools Continue reading

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-23

@hannahsassaman learning how to hug and kick at the same time is 90% of parenting in reply to hannahsassaman # Powered by Twitter Tools Continue reading

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-16

In the interstices of a movie, spent 3 hours uninstalling Office by hand to fix it. How do tech-phobic people deal with computers? # Powered by Twitter Tools Continue reading

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-02

Is there any evidence that Obama's post-partisan schtick helped in 2009 vs the implicit promise to create a new progressive era? # Breaking: Cigna admits secret payments to US Chamber of Commerce! # Powered by Twitter Tools Continue reading

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-25

Fascinating story of how 4/20 became Weed Day http://ping.fm/kK0yH # Join HCAN PA Keystone Progress SEIU Democracy Rising RocktheCapitol Philly NN: Call on Tom Corbett to resign http://ping.fm/8qTdq # Powered by Twitter Tools Continue reading

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-28

SEIU video of #melaniemarch http://ping.fm/Q7iDT # Washington Post video of #melaniesmarch http://ping.fm/CoS8J # #melaniesmarch on the Today show http://ping.fm/eaD88 # Great video of the event from SEIU! http://bit.ly/aQIHN2 # Washington Post coverage http://bit.ly/9cDWpe # Thanks to Senators Reid, Dodd, Harkin, Specter, Casey and Brown and Rep. Andrews too. #melaniesmarch # Continue reading

Everyday Heroes

I’m not getting as much time on Melanie’s March, our march from Philadelphia to Washington, DC for health care as I would like. I’m driving back to Philadelphia in the evening so that I can spend late nights and early mornings with a fast computer and internet connection that enables me to edit video, update this website and stay in contact with all the wonderful people who are organizing events down the line for us. I’m getting back to the March mid-day or sometimes later and only getting a few miles in. But I’m there enough to know how hard the march is physically both because of the mileage and, especially on the first three days, because sidewalks were so often snow covered. So, last night, as I had dinner with the marchers I kept thinking about how important they are to the health care campaign and how heroic they… Continue reading