As a Lincoln liberal I don’t have any arguments with liberals. I do have some quibbles with the self righteous who cloak themselves in liberalism. Here are some examples from personal experience that I should elaborate on when I’m in the mood.<\/p>\n
The faddish quality of protest and the taking of the MSU campus office of the college President.<\/p>\n
The self righteous booing of Senator Goldwater by students when he spoke to summer interns in 1971.<\/p>\n
Being given a picture of a chimpanzee by two women when I ran for the legislature symbolic, I presume, of their disapproval of my politics.<\/p>\n
A report of Republicans women likely all liberal moderate stalwarts of my being a house husband.<\/p>\n
Even as I list this pathetic list sans full details I’m struck that the only real damage any of this ever caused me were those of pride. No one told me I was more murderous than Stalin, Mao and Hitler all rolled up into one. That happened at a Republican convention before the last of the moderate republicans were driven out of the GOP like the rats of Hamlin by the Pied Piper.<\/p>\n
I’ve not been sleeping well for the past couple weeks. It could be a sign of Alzheimers which has been brooding about in my head for ages. It could be and I hope it is, a sign that bottling up all the things in my head keeps me from thinking unless I press them into words like a butterfly on a pin in a collection.<\/p>\n
I first began capturing my thoughts in a book I decided to try and sell to finance a fanciful campaign for Congress in 1992. It was a novel that was a thinly veiled attempt to describe me as a kid looking for myself in exile 65 million years earlier in the last days of the dinosaurs. I made the book unmarketable by enclosing the speech I gave shaming the Republican Party as it was morphing into the monster it has become. Then I began collecting the letters I began writing people as I campaigned for various political offices. After I finally got elected to the Duluth School Board in 1994 I made a lot of people mad by helping create what is now the Northstar Academy. The teacher’s union took umbrage and criticized me to its membership and I relished a way to broadcast my work and my thoughts more broadly. This was early in the development of the Internet and my website: www.snowbizz.com showed up in 1999 twenty-four years ago. I jumped to a blog in 2006, this one. It was a specialized website for daily or even minute by minute idea sharing. My most serious writing began when I began writing a column in Duluth’s tabloid the Reader. Unlike many of my thousands of blog posts I actually worked pretty hard to give my stories a good editing before they were inked on paper. <\/p>\n
Over those years I’ve agonized about writing a book not unlike the columns I’ve written about the messy world I watch every day. It has always occurred to me it could be in part a compilation of things I’ve written before. This may be an unofficial announcement of my getting my head together to attempt a book yet again. If I get more good night’s sleep out of emptying my head out it will be worth it even if I fail to put it together. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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