politics with a side of fries

as election season this year has drawn to a close, i've been a whirlwind of emotion and a flurry of activity (sounds like i'm a combo of some neurotic weather patterns). i think everything took on monumental significance because i've finally reached my version of 'middle age.' don't laugh and never mind the actual number associated with my age, it's more of a state of mind - i'm finally far enough out of school that i don't feel like a struggling student constantly. i've made good progress on my career and life plans are beginning to feel more firm. carefree days of boredom and spontaneous plans are fewer and fewer between. with this jump has come a more serious attitude when it comes to the implications of things. i inherently know, the value of a dollar and just how long and how much it takes to earn it. i wonder about what the future will hold, tomorrow, next year and in 20 years. i have come to realize that we are known by our actions and...

my grandmother sent me this in an email... aside from the fact that my grandmother is now emailing like crazy (itself a weird thing), i think it's just another 'sign of the times' that even earlier generations are getting into politics in a big way. I know that over the course of their lifetimes things have changed greatly, and it has to be unsettling at times to see how far we've come (or fallen as the case may be). What's reassuring though is that they still feel like the best way to make a change is to get out and do something - share their values, make their voices heard and trust that there is still hope for America's future. Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907. 'In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such m...