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To me, chains are WIPs (a nod to Sarah): constant works in progress.
Chains have many connotations to me, as well.
There’s the bicycling connection: the chain is part of the drivetrain of a bicycle. It needs attention to work properly: proper lubrication, cleaning, inspection for excess wear. Chains are never ever perfect [...]

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Friday the 13th was a day of highs and lows. Let me start with the highs (and a quip or two).
Last night, sprite and I went to see Robert Plant (the rock giant) and Alison Krauss (the chanteuse) perform a brilliant show at Merriweather Post Pavilion. Their album, Raising Sand, was my favorite [...]

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I’m serving out the end of my term on the DC Democratic State Committee, and one of the big votes is tonight: deciding on the unaffiliated add-on (i.e. sorta-super) delegates and the PLEO (elected official) delegates to this summer’s Democratic National Committee Convention. It’s one of the few votes we make that makes any [...]

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Why is it the good ones are taken from us too soon?
I lost a friend last night. Mike Shor, one of the most enthusiastic, smart, friendly and honest political activists ever to grace Washington, DC, passed away late last night due to a massive stroke. He was on vacation in New Mexico at [...]

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It’s been five years since George W. Bush and his theocon cronies, with the complicit support of congressional Democrats, brought the United States to war with Iraq.
A needless war.
A senseless war.
A deliberate diversion from the real war on terror and the pursuit of Osama bin Laden.
A war that was more about family honor and potential [...]

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If you want to affect change in government, have a say in the future of the U.S. policies both at home and abroad, and have a right to complain when things don’t go the way you want them to:
VOTE!
I’m just a bit miffed that the young folk didn’t turn out to vote in Texas and [...]

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