"I will come to a time in my backwards trip when November eleventh, accidentally my birthday, was a sacred day called Armistice Day. When I was a boy, all the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh
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Today I am happy, simply because participatory democracy gets me high. Really. I worked my first get out the vote project in 1982 (mid-term elections) as a boy scout. Worked my first presidential campaign in 1988 (too young to vote myself but got 18 year old high school students registered and participating in the caucuses including one that
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