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December 07, 2017
Dad at 13: 76 years ago today.
Seventy-six years ago today, a Sunday, my Dad, 13, came home in the afternoon with a basketball as usual under his arm. He was surprised to find both his parents in the living room of their new house in Indianapolis, where the family had moved from Missouri the year before and my grandfather J. Dan Hull was now the new principal of storied Shortridge High School. They were listening intently to the radio, heads bowed to their Emerson tabletop model. His mom, and my grandmother, Alene Oliver Hull, mother of two, one girl and one boy, and tough-as-nails, outspoken Kentuckian schoolteacher (she died at 101), looked up from the radio at my Dad and started to softly cry.
Damaged Pearl Harbor destroyers USS Cassin and USS Downes
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December 7, 1941
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December 05, 2017
SCOTUS wedding cake transcript.
Transcript of oral argument of this morning’s SCOTUS gay wedding cake case. 1 hour. Real lawyers & real judges.
MASTERPIECE CAKE SHOP, LTD.
v.
COLORADO CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION
No. 16-111
December 5, 2017 10:03 AM
https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2017/16-111_f314.pdf
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December 03, 2017
What happened to discourse?
From a Facebook post this morning by me:
I’m a long-time (now-ex) moderate Dem who did not vote for Trump but recently registered GOP for reasons—I’ve never liked unions or our unthinking PC ‘parrot’ culture & love free speech—unrelated to Trump. But I’ve applauded Trump’s entry onto the world stage since he announced for POTUS in June 2015 because I think that—long term—he is a refreshing, productive & badly-needed influence, especially on free speech. I’m amazed at the cost of this subtle shift. Before entering private practice, I worked on Capitol Hill for 4 years for both GOP & Dem MOCs (liberal D Senator & conservative R Congressman); folks well know this. My politics really haven’t changed much. But my publicly-open willingness to at least listen to Trump is apparently costing me countless friendships or prevents the continuance of developing relationships. I’m stunned. Am fortunate to be well-educated, well-read & well-traveled. I engage & talk to Everyone. Board rooms & the grittiest city streets. I’ve always had friends all over the cultural political landscape & spectrum. It makes life fuller. I do hope some of them come back or begin to mend.
https://www.facebook.com/dan.hull.37/posts/1524498210960750
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