The Best Politics Are Local
Today started off with imported things, i.e. stuff from Outside: coffee, coffee filters, coffee maker; and the imported political news of the morning; The Democratic National Committee's Rules Committee had decided to seat all the delegates from the Michigan and Florida primaries, but only give them half votes. Oh, and Sen. Obama had decided to resign his politically embarrassing church. Then, my politics turned local and tasty. The doorbell rang and standing there was a well-dressed young man - suit, tie, 3 point handkerchief, dress shoes - with a plastic bag in one hand and my Sunday paper in the other. He handed me both, we chatted for a moment and then he took off. The young man at the door is a member of Alaska State Legislature. What he had in the plastic bag was some of his home-smoked red salmon. The genesis of my morning encounter with this elected official was a chance meeting in the grocery store. I happen to have grown up with the mother of said representative's sis...