Jerry Chasen's Blog

Maybe more political than a holiday would warrant, it troubled me that we were talking about religious freedom when the extremists in our country seemed to be gaining the upper hand.

Our country was in the Iraq war, and it wasn’t going well. At the same time, my own life was really pretty terrific, and the dissonance was jarring.

Katrina was followed by the Tsunami in the far east. A friend told me about how he and members of his church got in a truck and went to New Orleans to help folks rebuild. I read of other stories like this–and they blew me away.

The Republicans lost the midterm election, and it looked to me like America was finally waking up!

It astonished me that the media gave such short shrift to the huge anti-war demonstrations that filled DC the the fall of 2007. I especially like the green left turn arrow in the pic of the Capitol, and the “Republicans for Voldemort” bumper sticker that was taken from one of the protest signs.