More Sunday Morning Airplane Blogging

Actually from last week, as I did not fly today. Please note that the windshield was clear, so those multi colored dots you see are probably bug eyed space aliens.

A bit of house keeping

Just a note to all as blogging seems to have picked up (which is nice by the way.) We are all responsible for what we write here as individuals, but Brook and Elizabeth as the publishers are responisible for everything on here weather they wrote it or not. As such, I, as a third party, ask that we all keep to the notion that we are free to talk about ourselves and public figures as much as we like (that being protected free speech) but we are not free to disclose personal information about other private parties. Please keep this in mind for the sake of Brook and Elizabeth (who has very tired fingers and is concerned about my lungs.)

Sunday Morning Airplane blogging

Some farmland SE of Nashville, the recent rain has really brought out the green in the world, but the haze in the upper left is smog.

O'Connor: I learned the most from Thurgood Marshall | San Jose Mercury News 7/23/05

MercuryNews.com 07/23/2005 Public has right to know about Roberts: "In one remarkable chapter of O'Connor's 2004 memoir, "The Majesty of the Law: Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice,'' she credited senior colleague Thurgood Marshall for sharing his experiences. "Although all of us come to the court with our own personal histories and experiences,'' she wrote, "Justice Marshall brought a special perspective. His was the eye of a lawyer who saw the deepest wounds in the social fabric and used the law to help heal them.'' She had "experienced gender discrimination enough,'' she said once. But until she worked with Marshall she had no "personal sense'' of being "a minority in a society that cared primarily for the majority.''" Damn. Now that's the kind of honesty the US (and Tennessee) need very, very badly in order to act positively - before it's too late. Black American author James Baldwin wrote about this reality 40 years ago in The Fire Next Time: " ... at the center of this dreadful storm, this vast confusion, stand the black people of this nation, who must now share the fate of a nation that has never accepted them, to which they were brought in chains. Well, if this is so, one has no choice but to do all in one's power to change that fate, and at no matter what risk."

Sunday Morning Airplane blogging