Goin’ All Activist: a Nice Surprise

I’m not taking credit for this, but I spent a couple of hours on base yesterday for an annual physical and noticed that all the public area televisions were set to CNN and NBC.  Not one was set to Fox News. I wonder if the letter I sent in September 2009 had anything to do with […]

Goin’ All Activist: the Followup

I heard this morning from Amanda, a staffer for Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, that the US Air Force had responded to my letter protesting the airing of Fox News on public televisions at USAF bases and the broadcasting of the Rush Limbaugh to military troops overseas by Armed Forces Radio. Here’s the link to everything that […]

Goin’ All Activist (Updated)

Update (11/19/09): more than two months with no response.  Time to ramp it up a notch: The Honorable Gabrielle Giffords                       November 19, 2009 U.S. House of Representatives 1728 Longworth House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 Dear Congresswoman Giffords, I mailed the attached letter to the US Air Force Chief of Staff on September 16, 2009 […]

Fallout

Positive bloggage fallout: a cousin I haven’t seen since the late 1950s discovered this site and established contact.  Nice.  Along the way my blog has helped me reconnect with former co-workers and school friends.  It doesn’t happen often, but when it does it’s always a pleasant surprise. There are other kinds of fallout.  I blogged […]