Governor Mayor Gavin Newsom (I slipped up and made that verbal premonition yesterday) is sitting here in the airport with me. I may chat with him in a moment.
This morning, he introduced the capstone speech by Van Jones. Let it be said that Van Jones Rocks, and his Ella Baker Center is just down the street from NCSE's offices, and I can only assume that Eugenie Scott's steely-eyed rationality is all that has protected us from Van Jones's rolling waves of charisma from several blocks away.
When the videos are posted, be sure to watch that session, if you see no other. I'll tell you what I told him, it was the perfect capstone for the weekend, capturing the optimism, the caution,
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