Wednesday, June 18, 2003
Emotions overwhelming as families are reunited
Back in April, this story about the dozen or so black citizens were arrested on the word of one undercover agent that they had sold him cocaine. He had no proof at all. Just his word. It's taken these people 4 years of being locked up to finally get to the truth and set them all free. Can you even imagine the injustice of it? To be stripped of four years of your life from a racist narc? (In April, I gave one of my Dickhead Awards to the undercover agent.)
Happy Birthday! Paul McCartney is celebrating his birthday today. He's 61. Was he your favorite Beatle? He was definitely mine. Or did you like John, George, or Ringo better? I remember where I was the moment I first heard "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" on the radio. I was on a family road trip to Florida, and we were driving down a south Georgia backroad on a hot sticky summer day. The DJ announced that the Beatles' song was coming up and Robin and I started squealing so loudly that my father lost his usual unflappable cool. But we convinced him to turn it up loud (or is it loudly?) for us just this once. Then in February 1964, they were on the Ed Sullivan Show. It was rated rock's top TV moment. We were sitting about 2 feet from the tv watching that, too. You knew something huge was happening with music that us kids loved and the world would never be quite the same.
Quote For Today
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears the beat of a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.
~Henry David Thoreau
I better be going. I have to get up sometime tomorrow.
Back in April, this story about the dozen or so black citizens were arrested on the word of one undercover agent that they had sold him cocaine. He had no proof at all. Just his word. It's taken these people 4 years of being locked up to finally get to the truth and set them all free. Can you even imagine the injustice of it? To be stripped of four years of your life from a racist narc? (In April, I gave one of my Dickhead Awards to the undercover agent.)
Happy Birthday! Paul McCartney is celebrating his birthday today. He's 61. Was he your favorite Beatle? He was definitely mine. Or did you like John, George, or Ringo better? I remember where I was the moment I first heard "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" on the radio. I was on a family road trip to Florida, and we were driving down a south Georgia backroad on a hot sticky summer day. The DJ announced that the Beatles' song was coming up and Robin and I started squealing so loudly that my father lost his usual unflappable cool. But we convinced him to turn it up loud (or is it loudly?) for us just this once. Then in February 1964, they were on the Ed Sullivan Show. It was rated rock's top TV moment. We were sitting about 2 feet from the tv watching that, too. You knew something huge was happening with music that us kids loved and the world would never be quite the same.
Quote For Today
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears the beat of a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.
~Henry David Thoreau
I better be going. I have to get up sometime tomorrow. 
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