Attended a day long Temple workshop, Engaging Diversity, Keeping It Real: An Introduction to Intergroup Dialogue.  Excellent, especially the class and race breakout groups.

I've been listening to the pre-DNC morning programs especially my love-to-hate "Morning Joe." Everyone has something to say about Barack not being tough. That he needs to go on the attack. His appeal is that he's a "new" kind of politician. Why is being a thoughtful policy-wonk a negative? I guess we're all too used to the low-bar set by 8 ( Read more... )