We’ve shared a lot of lighthearted moments here in café and there will be many more. But sometimes life takes us into darker places.

The Last Chance Democracy Cafe
Episode 52: Death visits after midnight
by Steven C. Day

Memory can be a funny thing: What our minds keep and what they throw away. In the case of our earliest childhood experiences, of course, almost everything gets tossed, victimized by what experts call childhood amnesia. But out of this blanket of early darkness, most of us retain at least one small pinprick of light in the form of our earliest memory. Often it’s nothing particularly noteworthy; an everyday event seemingly picked at random, almost like the reward given to the millionth person to drive across a bridge.

Donald, one of our Tuesday night regulars at The Last Chance Democracy Café, told me once that his first memory is of the coast of Maine. He was three years old, on the only extended vacation his family would ever take.

While walking along one of the rare bits of sandy beach to be found on the rocky coast of Maine, they came across a large piece of driftwood, probably from the main trunk of the tree. It had been run aground by the incoming tide. Donald and his sister both sat on it with one leg on each side like they were riding a horse, and their father pushed it back into the water, only to have the next large wave send them crashing back onto the sand. They did this again and again, laughing and generally having the time of their lives.

It was the only entirely unadulterated happy memory Donald would ever have of his father.

* * *

Donald had called me a couple of hours earlier. He sounded shaken.

“Steve,” he began, “tonight . . . well, actually tomorrow, right after midnight. My dad . . .”

I didn’t want to force him say the words. “I know,” I broke in quickly. “I heard.”

“Yeah, well, anyway, I had Cindy and the kids go to her parents for awhile. I thought it would be easier on them that way. And I was wondering . . . would it be okay if I came to the lounge tonight? I don’t want to be a downer or turn the place into a circus, but reporters will be calling and . . . I’d rather be out of the house when it happens.”

“Of course, we’d love to see you.”

I quickly called Horace, Tom, and Winston. Donald liked them, I knew, and, maybe more importantly under the circumstances, respected them. I figured he could use the support. I called Zach, our young college friend, too. I thought he might learn something.

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Justice Scalia says we need to get over Bush v. Gore.

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Changes are a coming (actually they’ve already come) to The Last Chance Democracy Café.  Most importantly, we have committed to producing new episodes on a regular basis, something that’s been absent for a long time.  The idea is to post a new one every other Thursday.  We’ll probably miss the deadline once in awhile, but we intend to make that the exception.

Episodes are the one truly unique thing about The Last Chance Democracy Café.  There are a million political blogs out there, but only one group of wise men gathered around the large round table.  But here’s the thing: It’s hard to hook new readers on a long term series like this.  So do me a favor, regulars — whenever you can, spread the word.

Here’s another thing: Writing episodes is very time consuming.  So while I intend to keep the blog active, posts will be shorter and perhaps a little less common than they have been (you may already have noticed the trend).  We have a fine little community going here.  So I’m hoping you regulars will keep the conversation going.

In case you missed it, the last episode, posted a week and a half ago, is here.

The next episode will be going up this Thursday. 

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I think you may have touched on this before, but I’d like to reiterate the single biggest mental block that currently makes me think I will not cast my vote for Clinton. It makes my stomach hurt to think that in twenty or thirty years I could look back at a list of presidents that includes “Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton.” This country is far too great to have to rely on two families for so much presidential leadership. Think about it: a two-term Hillary would be TWENTY-EIGHT years of Bush and Clinton. It’s petty, but like I said it’s a mental block, and I’m just not sure how I can get over it.

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