Category Archives: Thoughts on the World

My son’s first direct action: Making cards for Guantanamo Bay Hunger Strikers

Dear Friends, Have you ever doubted the power of a letter?  If so, read this note Amnesty received from Sami al Haj, who was held at Guantanamo without charge for years and finally transferred home to Sudan in 2008: “I received more than 20,000 letters from members and supporters of Amnesty International during my lastContinue reading “My son’s first direct action: Making cards for Guantanamo Bay Hunger Strikers”

Keeping My Son Behind due to Spending Cuts… sigh.

With all the funding cuts in the schools now and forever, I think I am going to keep my son in pre-school an extra year. Otherwise he will be one of the youngest in class, and his teacher said he's borderline. He could benefit from staying, although, might not be unnecessary. Is it worth takingContinue reading “Keeping My Son Behind due to Spending Cuts… sigh.”

Aaron Swartz’s Prosecutor, Carmen Ortiz Picked on Someone Bigger than Her

Just thinking about Aaron Swartz as Harvard Professor Lawrence Lessig is going to make a speech about him: http://blogs.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/2013/02/19/harvard-prof-to-talk-life-and-legacy-of-internet-activist-aaron-swartz/#axzz2LP7wJjqv And how Carmen Ortiz the prosecutor has had her judgement questioned for going after him so un-relentlessly. In fact vilified over Swartz's suicide, thus ending any hope of further ascension to her career.  http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2013/02/07/can-carmen-ortiz-survive-attorney/rJrpRJfoLvQlzS7BO1culI/story.html It struck me that CarmenContinue reading “Aaron Swartz’s Prosecutor, Carmen Ortiz Picked on Someone Bigger than Her”