The hotlink for Background will take you to your Senate confirmation hearing. Please note:
1. All your grandchildren were in attendance.
2. As you know, you have 14 grandchildren.
3. I only have one grandchild.
4. When it comes to grandchildren, you would appear to have what I regard as an unfair numerical advantage.
5. You are only one year older than I and yet you are 13 grandchildren ahead of me.
6. Clearly you began the process of populating grandchildren by becoming a parent early in life.
7. I did not become a parent until I was in my 30s when I worried about whether I had the skills to be a parent. My first daughter Joanna was born in 1984. My second daughter Amelia Altalena was born in 1990 and she was born two months early which scared the hell out of me. I still have not forgiven Amelia Altalena for her impatience.
8. One reason for my delay in preparing for the next generation was my treatment for a once fatal form of cancer: Hodgkin’s Disease.
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Debate details.
1. The purpose of the debate is to serve as a model perhaps even as a
Syllabus in development to encourage education of global food policy at a time where the vast majority of our country is removed both physically and conceptually from the farms where our food and the world’s food is produced.
2. Conceived in a lighthearted fashion, the idea of a debate between grandchildren and perhaps it may amuse you as well.
3. Never before in our history has the estrangement between…