We all know that Barack Obama is a radical Muslim who will not recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Meanwhile, Hilary Clinton helped free two Black Panthers accused of murder and as Senator refused to meet with a delegation of Gold Star mothers. We know this because email and the Internet tell us so. I hunt Snopes, the Urban Legend site, for myths to debunk or confirm for my clients' electronic newsletters to their customers.  The legends make for good light reading, and the mention of scams can help people from becoming victims. This week when I was trolling Snopes for [...]

Jeremy, our 20/30-something intern minister, finally snagged some of Greg's time for a YouTube video with a few pithy sound bites about the church. I kinda like Greg's "We are a church where God is optional, but you are not", but I know I'm biased. Us older people want to make these videos a production, and I don't mean in a good way! Younger folks understand that people click, watch for a while, and often click away. So, we shouldn't sweat the production values and spend too much time editing out the passing pigeon. It took months for the stars [...]

BARACK OBAMA      88,886   52.21% HILLARY CLINTON   75,341   44.25% Unfortunately, those numbers were only from the City County Nation State of San Francisco.  It's a great, important contest.  I'm happy that our district will be supplying more Obama delegates to the convention.

My fingers are tired from holding up two Barrack Obama signs on the traffic island at Castro and Market for a couple hours. It's a good tired, I think. The last time I stood on a street corner proclaiming for a Presidential candidate was in 1960 about 100 feet from the polling place at the local school. Since I lived in John Kennedy's old Congressional District, the crowd was pretty friendly to the 7-year-old me.  The crowds driving by this afternoon were pretty friendly to the 54-year-old me.  Lots of honks, waves, and pumped fists of encouragement.  The assortment of passing fans [...]

On the way to watching the Superbowl yesterday, we passed the home of an obviously intelligent, sophisticated, and patriotic neighbor. I admit to being impressed that hand made their "Obama" letters -- nothing from campaign HQ here! I'm taking time off today to do more Get Out The Vote calls, and plan to walk my precinct tomorrow. 

I signed up to work as an Obama precinct captain on a Saturday.  After 10 days and many emails I was sent a username and password to get access to my assigned precinct. The online system lets me log in, but won't let me look at any voters. I call the volunteer office and make a round of phone calls from a PDF list.  Days pass, and my online account gets reset.  I can log in and see voters. I record the results of the calls I made previously.  Two days later I try to log into the system again to make [...]