by Peggy Robin
I love a parade -- so goes the old song, and this year on the Fourth of July there’s so much to celebrate: marriage equality, for one thing. Or for those adamantly against marriage equality, you can celebrate the linguistic extravagance of its most colorful (if vituperative) critic, Antonin Scalia. I invite you to form a contingent and march under the banner of “mummeries” and “judicial putsch” (or you can use this web link to generate your own Scalia-vocabulary to let fly and land where it will: http://slate.me/1KlmO6i.
I love a parade -- so goes the old song, and this year on the Fourth of July there’s so much to celebrate: marriage equality, for one thing. Or for those adamantly against marriage equality, you can celebrate the linguistic extravagance of its most colorful (if vituperative) critic, Antonin Scalia. I invite you to form a contingent and march under the banner of “mummeries” and “judicial putsch” (or you can use this web link to generate your own Scalia-vocabulary to let fly and land where it will: http://slate.me/1KlmO6i.
On the other
hand, you may just want to come out on the Fourth to show a bit of civic pride,
and if that’s your goal, you can take advantage of your invitation from Mayor
Muriel Bowser to march with her in the annual Palisades Parade, now in its 49th
year. Here are the details:
What: The 49th
annual Palisades Fourth of July Parade
When:
Saturday, July 4th, 2015
Meet
Up/Line Up Time: 10:00 AM
Parade
Starts: 11:00 AM
Where:
Whitehaven Parkway/MacArthur Boulevard
Sign
up here: http://bit.ly/1HhxUqE
If
you would like to take a stand for DC Voting Rights (and what better day for that
than the Fourth of July?), you should be able to join the contingent organized
by DC Vote that has participated in the Palisades Parade for each of the past
several years. I assume such a group is being organized to march this year, although when I hastily Googled the subject this evening to find the details, I must report I came up empty. If anyone can supply information on how to sign
up to march for DC Vote in the Palisades parade, please post it to the Cleveland Park Listserv.
But
if you want would prefer to march for the cause of peace and domestic tranquility,
as well as the old-fashioned virtue of being considerate of your neighbors,
coupled with the more contemporary cause of being kind to the environment, then
I invite you to join the Palisades parade as a marcher in the anti-leafblower
brigade, CALM (Citizens Against Leafblower Mania). I am passing along to you
the invitation I received from one of the organizers, Denise Paolella, who
notes that you will receive a free T-shirt if you sign up:
Attached is a photo of the CALM
(Citizens Against Leafblower Mania) group lining up for the Palisades 4th
of July Parade. It would be great if you and some of your Cleveland
Park neighbors can join us this July 4th. Please feel free to have
anyone interested contact me by phone or e-mail. I will provide the
T-shirts for participants.
Sincerely,
Denise Paolella
d.e.paolella
@ comcast.net
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Life With Robin is published on the Cleveland Park Listserv and on All Life Is
Local on Saturdays.
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