Every morning at dawn, George
Hilton Beagle and I take a dawn walk through a public park and on open,
connected streets past beautiful old houses, the kind built before the
cowering, furtive cul-de-sacs and ruling-class “gated communities” became
fashionable. You know, back before all the Republicans started sneering at the
very word “democracy.”
This is one of the houses George
and I pass every day, the historic Thomas Marshall house at 218 Jackson St.,
Charleston, IL. Abraham
Lincoln stayed there when practicing here as a lawyer and during the Lincoln-Douglas debates.
My friend Jim Jenkins replied, "The mindset that leads the paranoid and the terrified to feel justified in gunning down innocent children with Skittles whose visibility makes them nervous."
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