Reflecting on one certain legacy of Bu$hCo
posted by Captain Plaid @ Saturday, November 15, 2008
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Captain Plaid - Progressivism meets an ornery Scot
Forty plus years in rural East Alabama, a surname going back to Vikings invading Scotland, and finally too much conservatism and fundamentalism motivates me. I'll share my ideas on politics, law, learning, our earth, spirituality, tolerance ... I'll always look toward "home" and will likely one day be back in the South. My clan supposedly uses "Peace ... or War!" Maybe those genes compel me to join issue in politics and the "culture war"? Thanks, John Gunn
Saturday, November 15, 2008
About Me
- Name: Captain Plaid
- Location: East Alabama to Great NW, United States
Educated at tolerable public schools and the finest non-ABA accredited yet Church of Christ affiliated part-time/night law school in the entire state of Alabama, I've managed to play lawyer, teacher, student, farm hand, activist/organizer, infantry soldier ... A recovering Southern Baptist, I'm almost a Buddhist Cowboy these days although a variant of Vonnegut's Bokononism might work. My dog tags read Unitarian Universalist. I suppose secular humanist might work as well as anything. Running from the law for nine plus years, I first did GTA work at Auburn and then spent the next five years with hormonal teenagers. Supressing my Scots enough to not strangle any kids, and indeed I learned much about patience and kindness, I taught various Social Studies preps in west Georgia public schools. Frustrated with bumbling bureaucrats and pushover parents and ..., plus knowing the 2006 elections were critical, I set aside the chalk to work a Congressional campaign. Enlisting at the seasoned age of 41 in the summer of 2007, I'm now ...
Previous Posts
- Team Obama ~ "In Transition, Ties to Lobbying"
- Yet another Alabama connection to Team Obama
- A "blatant, pathetic attempt to stifle" what?
- Reason rather than rhetoric please!
- Thank God for South Carolina?
- Heading home for Veteran's Day
- Goodbye Tom DeLay, Karl Rove, Dick Cheney ...
- Shepard Smith and Faux News tries "outrage"
- I'm 43 years old, male, white ... and proud as hel...
- Phyllis Schlafly ~ Cutting my teeth on nutjobs
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