We’ll probably start with education, and talk a lot about today’s most popular “news sources:” Facebook and Twitter. Along the way, we’ll hopefully identify some actionable strategies for “growing” more knowledgeable voters. Greg Bush provided this link to a Bill Moyers episode…we should have some fun discussing the clip if enough people check it out. …

Phil Caper suggested that the attached NYT Op-Ed (attached as a PDF) may be another good reading on “freedom.” He notes that the author is married to Trevor Corson, who wrote “The Secret Life of Lobsters,” and grew up on MDI. She frequently spends part of the summer in Maine. Opinion Anu Partanen-The Fake Freedom …

While this topic was selected well before the Kavanaugh hearings began, the words “liberty” and “freedom” were used many times over the course of those hearings. So we’ll discuss, I suppose, whether we think they have the same meanings that they did to the Founders or whether the passage of time has changed the definition …