From “Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution”:

First, we are challenged to develop a world perspective. No individual can live alone, no nation can live alone, and anyone who feels that he can live alone is sleeping through a revolution. The world in which we live is geographically one. The challenge that we face today is to make it one in terms of brotherhood.

Now it is true that the geographical oneness of this age has come into being to a large extent through modern man’s scientific ingenuity. Modern man through his scientific genius has been able to dwarf distance and place time in chains. And our jet planes have compressed into minutes distances that once took weeks and even months. All of this tells us that our world is a neighborhood.

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The uneasy relationship between Joe Lieberman and the some Connecticut Democrats continues. State Rep Tim O’Brien D-New Britain has introduced a bill that would require a special election to fill a Senate vacancy should one occur. This bill matches the one for filling a U.S. House of Representatives vacancy, which on the surface makes sense. But, 42 states have laws that grant the power to appoint a replacement with the Governor. While State Rep O’Brien claims that he has timed his legislation when a vacancy appointment was unlikely, it seems that it’s not Dodd’s presidential announcement that has Dems worried about what happens if Lieberman decides to leave the senate before his term ends.

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