Radical Love Gets a Holiday
Radical Love Gets a Holiday - by Sarah Vowell
IN 1983, Ronald Reagan signed a bill honoring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a federal holiday. Reagan opposed it, but back then, in the olden times of checks and balances, the vote by 338 representatives and 78 senators establishing the holiday threatened certain veto override.
So there was the president in the White House Rose Garden pretending to enjoy turning this drain on the Gross National Product into law. Perhaps he comforted himself that the American people, who can turn something as dead serious as Memorial Day into a clambake, would somehow find a way to use a football season Monday venerating a murder victim to sleep off their beer and nachos hangovers of the preceding afternoon.
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This is exactly why I can't unconditionally condemn all religion as bad. I just wish more would pay attention to the positive instead of focusing on ways to interpret the Bible that justify their fear and hate.
How Mitt Romney "saw" his father march with the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
I love Sarah Vowell. Smart, sarcastic and funny. One of my favorite lines is when she was talking about how no realized how truly bad Bush's presidency was going to be - she said she had a failure of pessimistic imagination.
She's one of my favorites too. One of those few who I look forward to each new book or essay they write.
Nice one Erick.
Haha, I knew you'd like it. :)
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