http://progressivewednesday.com To dos, talk and tools to get America over the hump. Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:02:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For crying out loud, keep your pants on. We'll be back. Soon. http://progressivewednesday.com/2008/04/27/on-hiatus/ Problem: “We” aren’t at war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Our soldiers are. Both wars individually have gone on longer than the U.S. involvement in the War of 1812, Mexican War, Civil War, Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, and Persian Gulf War. There doesn’t seem to ... http://progressivewednesday.com/2008/03/19/this-wednesday-truly-supporting-our-troops/ Problem: One of the places that I desperately want to visit before I “become one with nature” is the Great Barrier Reef. A series of over 3,400 individual reefs and 900 islands along the east coast of Australia, it covers a distance longer than the west coast of the United States. ... http://progressivewednesday.com/2008/03/12/this-wednesday-coral-relief-3/ The other night on PBS I enjoyed watching a 90 minute special about Pete Seeger.  Maybe you saw it too. Some of you will remember Pete Seeger as a great folk singer and war protester.  He wrote or modified or sang such songs as “Where Have All the Flowers Gone” and ... http://progressivewednesday.com/2008/03/05/clergyman-charlie-when-will-they-ever-learn/ Hey there, dear readers, please know that we're having some technical glitches and that we'll be up and running smoothly again in no time. Peace, Eric & Matt http://progressivewednesday.com/2008/03/05/hang-tight-kids/ (Editor's note: Sorry about the delay. I'll blame it on the snow. Yeah, that's it: it was the snow's fault!) Margot at the Wedding is a film written and directed by, go figure, writer/director Noah Baumbach, and this is his follow-up after his Oscar-nominated flick The Squid and the Whale. Like ... http://progressivewednesday.com/2008/02/29/the-tgif-movie-review-margot-at-the-wedding/ Problem: The first years of my memory are of Niagara Falls. We lived on Orchard Parkway in a tiny second-floor house apartment. And as I grew up in the surrounding area, I learned to think of my hometown as the honeymoon and suicide capital of the world. I grew up with daredevils ... http://progressivewednesday.com/2008/02/27/this-wednesday-reviving-niagara-2/ Here's a "Huzzah!" or two for the gray wolves. Why, pray tell? Well, give me a second, for crying out loud. According to the Associated Press: Gray wolves in the Northern Rockies will be removed from the endangered species list, following a 13-year restoration effort that helped the animal's population soar, ... http://progressivewednesday.com/2008/02/26/i-wish-i-had-something-more-eloquent-to-say-except-huh/ The Indian Runner, the first film written and directed by the brilliant Sean Penn, tells the story of two brothers, Joe (played by David Morse) and Frank (played with vitriol and intensity by Viggo Mortensen) and their inability to connect on the basic elements of life: love, family, peace vs. ... http://progressivewednesday.com/2008/02/22/the-tgif-movie-review-indian-runner/ Problem: I'm not going write this Wednesday without making a confession: there have been two times in my life when I regularly smoked cigarettes (between 1/2 a pack and 1 1/2 packs a day). Each time was brief (don't worry, Mom), and both times I quit, quickly and cold, though not ... http://progressivewednesday.com/2008/02/20/this-wednesday-butt-out-buddy-2/