Election Night 2016 in New York City . . It was such a beautiful fall Tuesday in New York. We were all in such a good mood. But in retrospect there were some early warning signs I’d rationalized and dismissed: The tollbooth clerk I had a happy election exchange with but when asked who she […]
Hillary Clinton Javits Center 2016
November 13th, 2016 · 18 Comments · New York City, Politics, Real-life Adventure Tales
Tags: Abbie Hoffman·Al Franken·Bob Dylan·Hillary Clinton·John Lennon·Ken Kesey·New York·Vincent Van Gogh·Woodstock
Gary Hart rally 1984 Washington Square
September 11th, 2016 · 12 Comments · New York City, Politics, Real-life Adventure Tales
How Rock Concerts Led To Politics . For most of ’80s I lived in Phyllis & Eddie Condon’s palatial apartment on Washington Square North. The NYU Program Board from where I ran the concerts was in the Loeb Student Center on Washington Square South — about a 3-minute walk away — if you didn’t dawdle […]
Tags: Bernie Sanders·Election 2016·Grateful Dead·Greenwich Village·Hillary Clinton·Washington Square Park·Winnipeg
How the 2016 Election Will Play Out
August 9th, 2016 · 9 Comments · Politics
. The 2016 Presidential and Congressional elections will be a win for Clinton because . . . — Trump continues to be unhinged for the next 3 months; — his racism / bigotry comments & viewpoint continue to reappear; — there’s a 3-month continuous drip-drip-drip of negative Trump business stories; — the Republican party will not […]
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Democratic Party Unity in 2016
April 17th, 2016 · 6 Comments · Politics
. Restoring my Faith in Democracy at The Democrats Abroad Toronto Debate-Watch Party, April 2016 . Attending the Democrats Abroad debate-watch party in Toronto this week reminded me how we are so much better than the memes and mean comments I see on social media or news opinions every day. “Democracy isn’t something we […]
Tags: Bernie Sanders·Democrats Abroad·Hillary Clinton·Toronto