Pinko Magazine Hedonism + Activism

It’s Friday night; I’m home alone drinking red wine and watching Bill Moyers interview Corey Booker, messianic Newark Mayor (and nomad). Perhaps it is because I’m flipping between the interview and 1998’s incomprehensibly sexy Velvet Goldmine, but I just fell in love with Corey Booker. He talks about great “urban innovators,” changing the ways cities think about themselves and about government. He links greening cities with social and economic justice; he’s vowed to clean up the crime create a more sensible and less racist drug policy, and he says he is willing to give his life for his faith in Newark (in art an original idea is rare, in politics, this might be the first one). He, rhetoric aside, sees individuals in their communities, neighborhoods, and blocks as the best hope for America and is trying to adjust city policy to support the best efforts of his constituents.

Whatever.

It might be the lonely Friday night or the Stickleback talking, but he’s hot!

About The Author - I was a librarian and now I write books. I used to write about children and now I am writing about Jews. I'm also working on an NGO that helps connect children to each other across cultural, geographic, political, religious, and military divides. - Visit Charles's site.