bob edwards

ok, so this evening stephan and i dashed down to centre's weisiger theatre after supper to see.....bob edwards, speaking as a guest of an endowed lecture series.........and all of liberal danville was there....adults outnumbered actual students 4 to 1........and even some of my most conservative aquaintances were there as well........part of my book club......numerous montessori parents from days gone by........and the talk was so......bob edwardsian........witty, thought-provoking,...and timely.......he talked about the stonewalling of the press that the bush administration has made policy......brought up a story i had not heard about a fellow called upon at a press conference to ask a question so cotton-candy in substance that reall press folks wanted to know about the guy...who turned out to be present under an alias....and under his actual name was employed bu the rnc......go figure....and in his spare time made $200/hour as a male hooker.......and obviously was known to be who he was by the secret service, who do not regularly admit male hookers by accident..........the current climate of 'watch what you say' was addressed, in particular the post and times reporters who may go to jail for not revealing a source of a story that neither actually wrote about, while the guy who did out the cia undercover operative is not under any fear of criminal prosecution.....again...go figure.......it must be noted that bob edwards is a native son.......born and raised in louisville, with kin still living in our county's poorest section called gravel switch.........his own ousting from npr, despite a huge listenership was addressed......and in the end he tied it all up with comparisons to the mccarthy era....and how his idol, edward r murrow sacrificed his own career to take on mccarthy and all that he stood for........he did speak to the small contingent of students.......encouraging them to question authority....question the status quo...ask the tough questions......raise hell......which reminded me of the discussion we had in sunday school.....my friend cynthia was quoting a friend who had the prior evening moaned about the son of a friend who was, as a senior in college, a staunch conservative.....and the friend had bemoaned that youth should be the time for liberality of ideas and saving the world...that conservatism should be the last resort of our old age.........frankly, i think that my thoughts become more rather than less liberal as i age.......even today, when i was addressed by my spouse's mother's name......i corrected him gently but firmly........i am not about to abandon my hyphenated status at this late date....drift into conventional mrs.______(read this as a single rather than double last name).......and i am proud that thus far my offspring show signs of savetheworld rather than watchwhatyousay.............i want to end this rant by voicing my gratitude to lucille little, a bluegrass doyenne of the highest calibre, whose bequest paid for this evening's intellectual treat.....this sort of opportunity makes living in backwater america so much more pleasurable........