In precisely 10 hours, I’m on a bus…

…I and umpteen men, women and children on 80 buses will leave Connecticut for the trip south to the Women’s March on  Washington. We leave at 1:30 a.m. Saturday, arrive in D.C. around 7 a.m., make our ways to the march, and proceed to be very loud. Oh, and we’ll take copious pictures. This is …

Do not give up on politics

Joshua Rothman, writing for The New Yorker, on Charles Taylor, the Canadian philosopher, includes this beautiful line: “Democracy is teleological,” Taylor said. “It’s a collective effort with a noble goal: inclusion.” He also said (Taylor, not Rothman) that democracy is a “fiction that we’re trying to realize.” The piece also included this: “Try to listen; find out …

It has been a very long day

As their Senate brothers and sisters, led by Connecticut’s Sen. Chris Murphy, did last week with a filibuster, at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, members of the U.S. House of Representatives, led by Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) started a sit-in to call attention to their august body’s inability to do something in regard to gun legislation. The Senate …

Thank you, Islamic world, for the coffee and democracy

And thank you, Leftover, for this link. And Ramadan Mubarak to our Muslim brothers and sisters.