Day October 17, 2007

Martin Luther King Jr. in Simsbury CT

Simsbury? Yes. In 1944, when he was 15, he picked tobacco in Simsbury. This was his first exposure to the Northeast and to a society that was not formally segregated and provided a number of interactions with the communities in…

Let them drink Gatorade

After Gutenberg has a fine rant about the extremely serious southeast drought, and how water shortages are at least partly a result of global warming and deforestation. How bad is the drought? Bad enough they hoped hurricanes would come. And…

Dear aging rock stars

While I realize some 60’s-70’s rock stars might have fallen on comparatively barren financial times (while others are worth hundreds of millions), would you all please give it deep thought before permitting yet another advertiser to use your songs in…