I Can't Believe This Is Really Happening
I'm feeling put upon, so forgive me if I use you to whine about the world for a while. Things are just out of sorts, it seems. I've been stewing about SB1070 since yesterday , and I'm no more comfortable with it today than I was then. The lead photo in Monday's Arizona Daily Star has the requisite raised fist Michael Chow/The Arizona Republic but I don't see many raised fists here in Tucson. I'm berating my legislators via email and phone, I'm spreading the word here in The Burrow, I'm feeling outraged.... and yet it all seems small and petty and meaningless. Why have the campuses not erupted? Where is the fervor I remember? Is it really that different 40 years later? Have kids changed that much? ***** I helped G'ma fill out her absentee ballot yesterday. Arizona has a special election next month. There is only one question: Are you for or against the imposition of a 1% sales tax for the next three years? Without it, ele...