Grassroots 101
My DD gives us some basics for grassroots efforts as to avoiding Bad Meeting Syndrome. We've all sinned yet surely we can do better. Peace ... or War!
Captain Bama - Progressivism and Populism from the Piedmont Branchheads of Alabama
Captain Plaid, an especially surly and snarky Scot from the East Alabama Highlands, takes on the Big Mules of the Yellowhammer State. Ventures beyond the borderlands, across the river to the East most frequently, will also be necessary. From Goat Hill to The ATL to The Smokies to the Gulf Coast, it's Peace ... or War!
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
About Me
- Name: Captain Plaid
- Location: East Alabama to Great NW, United States
Educated at tolerable public schools and the finest non-ABA accredited yet Church of Christ affiliated part-time/night law school in the entire state of Alabama, I've managed to play lawyer, teacher, student, farm hand, activist/organizer, infantry soldier ... A recovering Southern Baptist, I'm almost a Buddhist Cowboy these days although a variant of Vonnegut's Bokononism might work. My dog tags read Unitarian Universalist. I suppose secular humanist might work as well as anything. Running from the law for nine plus years, I first did GTA work at Auburn and then spent the next five years with hormonal teenagers. Supressing my Scots enough to not strangle any kids, and indeed I learned much about patience and kindness, I taught various Social Studies preps in west Georgia public schools. Frustrated with bumbling bureaucrats and pushover parents and ..., plus knowing the 2006 elections were critical, I set aside the chalk to work a Congressional campaign. Enlisting at the seasoned age of 41 in the summer of 2007, I'm now ...
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