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Jo Freeman writes, "Monday was Martin Luther King Day; It was a good day to protest, even if there wasn’t anything to protest about: Celebrating 'The End of an Error,' the Raging Grannies sang to the crowd and Code Pink did the Can-Can, as in 'Yes We Can-Can End War, a take-off on 'Yes We Can'." more »

Jo Freeman writes, "The combination of the first African American elected President followed by Pete Seeger, the 89-year-old folksinger who had been convicted for 'contempt of Congress' in the year Obama was born, made one believe that the Sixties had triumphed after all." more »

Adrienne Cannon writes, "9:30 AM. Saturday morning. Jazzercise class. The beat revves up as does the complexity of the moves. Uh-oh ... that old feeling has come back. Was it really three years ago that I began to lament my position of 'last in line?'" more »

Julia Sneden writes, "Sports venues used to be named after people of achievement, if they weren’t named for the teams that used them. Nowadays, despite the fact that most venues are built at least in part by taxpayer dollars, "naming rights" are sold for large amounts of money." more »