Don't know about the chicken/broccoli yet, FIL ended up in the hospital yesterday. He had a bad cold, was trying to do too much (mowing the yard and such!!) and was having trouble breathing, Mr. B is over there today. The hospital will keep him for a couple of days.
John Kerry Prefaces Langston Hughes Book
NEW YORK - Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry (news - web sites), who has been quoting from the Langston Hughes poem "Let America Be America Again" during campaign appearances, has contributed a preface to a short collection of verse by the Harlem Renaissance writer.
"While it is the litany of the great promise of opportunity that has drawn so many of the worlds disaffected to our shores, the poem is also a call to make that promise real for all Americans," writes Kerry.
The book, for which Kerry received no fee, will be called "Let America Be America Again" and features the title poem and eight other pieces. Vintage Books will publish the collection Aug. 10.
Hughes wrote "Let America" in 1938, during the Great Depression. It's a plaintive, ironic call for the country to live up to its own promise of freedom. "Let America be America again/Let it be the dream it used to be." Hughes writes, then adds: "America never was America to me."
Golly gee! I hope it wasn't the squash! Tell FIL he has to take it easy in this hot, humid weather. I can hardly make it to the mailbox and back without feeling like I'm going to faint. An exaggeration, of course, but it sure does sap you fast.
Paula Jones will be on Prime Time Live (ABC) tonight at 10 pm eastern. From the write up on their website it's not clear whether Kathleen Wiley and Jennifer Flowers will also be on the program. But I love their headline: "Jones: 'It started with me'". The angle of the story is that the VRWC did, indeed, use Jones to further their anti-Clinton agenda. Deliciously, though, she turns the Toon's own foolish words back on him. "Just because he could". Jones says that's exactly why he did what he did to her. LOL!