( continues...) America is to be a great nation, this must become true.

And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.

Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.

Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.

But not only that:

Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.

From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:

Free at last! Free at last!

Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

Uh. OK, i was going to post something whiny about being bored and looking at personals and why isn't the cute girl at craigslist where I could email her instead of at gay.com where I would have to sign up and pay money to email her, but...um....it feels kinda petty next to, y'know, a guy with a Dream.

Because I'm a sap.

Mom has bowed out of House because it is too late. And because she already spilt coffee on my lounge pants. And cause she sucks apart from the fact that she rocks.

but...um....it feels kinda petty next to, y'know, a guy with a Dream.

gay.com is a damn funny name for some reason

Trudy, thanks for posting that in full. It's not too often it gets seen or heard in entirety and it's worth spending the time to read/listen. More than just the "I have a dream" that is usually what gets aired, that whole speech is really quite inspirational.

funnier than gay.coop?

Hmm. No one has registered that, yet.

I'm giving a speech at TM tonight, this assignment involves reading out a famous speech. I was choosing between King's I Have A Dream speech and Kennedy's inaugural address. I actually went with the latter, it makes quite a contrast with the current administration, but King's speech would be good timing. Not that we celebrate MLK Day here, of course.

Incidentally, my older brother was born on the day King was assassinated.

Sail, I wish they would show the whole thing. I used to go to the library in college and watch it. I was reading "I Have Been to the Mouintaintop" also. I wish my dial-up would let me listen to the audio.

I am hearing the clips to that speech embedded in OMD's Southern...

I think I just dated myself.

And explained why no one else wants to.