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.

Every time I read Bobby Kennedy's comments after Dr King's death, I weep for the state of political oratory in our time.

Clinton's "I feel your pain" pales in comparison, and I'm a fan of old Billy Jeff.

What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black.

Thanks for the double whammy, Karl. Crying now, to have lost the feeling that something could be done. That what I do, and the influence I have over my family, my neighbors, can make a difference. To have lost the belief that there is any candidate who approaches office as a public servant, dedicated to doing the best for the ones who need it most.

The people in public office have ground my spirit till I feel old, and tired, broken and cynical. And I just can't believe anymore, in the possibility of change for the better, in the possibility of people in power even wanting to do right by the constituents who don't own corporations.

Somewhere there has to be a MLK, a RFK, or hell, a Bill Clinton, who can rally us as a country and lead us into more compassionate and generous times. I hope.

Somewhere there has to be a MLK, a RFK, or hell, a Bill Clinton, who can rally us as a country and lead us into more compassionate and generous times. I hope.

Amen.

I can't read the "I Have a Dream" speech without crying.

Anne, how are you feeling today? Better?