So, the Democratic National Convention is being held August 25-28th (timed to be a four day celebration of my birthday, methinks, but I digress.)

Barring a meltdown of epic proportions or some other game-changing miracle, the person making the acceptance speech on August 28th, 2008 will be Barack Obama.

...

45 years to the day after Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech.

Here's hoping it doesn't disappoint.

-pb

I learned that the anti-marriage amendment I wrote to my State Senator about a few days ago has been tabled and apparently left for dead. The author of the bill wisely realized that it wasn't going to pass in the house, and the debate on the proposed amendments was going to take a loooong time. One of those amendments was from outgoing Senator Vince Fumo, who suggested that if they really wanted to protect marriage, they wouldn't mind including a near-blanket ban on divorce in the bill. That didn't go over too well.

-pb