Thoughts This Week....

Watching Jane Fonda in Coming Home--a how to for returning veterans during the Vietnam war--as well as an anti-war statement and protest of ill-treatment of returning soldiers by the governement? Normalize the image of the wounded veteran-show how they can function in society....how soon did the Americans with Disabilties act follow?.... Watching Oprah's "joyrising" yesterday....Oprah...Obama...Chicago....Obama's Nobel prize...the ways in which Obama's election was not Harold Washington's... a global, progressive effort...not just represnting black folks...but progressives of every stripe. Hope.....When did the CIA start having a wing that made investments on it's behalf?...