Discourse

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength To Love, 1963.

In 50 years our political discourse has run amok. The 'two party' system we cherish has been fragmented to the point of no repair. What now?

Maybe a step back to remember where we came from will refresh our insight and improve our future....

on this day

Events:
1968 - Apollo Program: The crew of Apollo 8 enter into orbit around the Moon, becoming the first humans to do so. They performed 10 lunar orbits and broadcast live TV pictures that became the famous Christmas Eve Broadcast, one of the most watched programs in history.
1914 - World War I: The "Christmas truce" begins.
1777 - Kiritimati, also called Christmas Island, was discovered by James Cook.

Birthdays:
0 - Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
1923 - George Patton IV, American general (d. 2004).

1 death:
1992 - Bobby LaKind, American musician and singer (The Doobie Brothers) (b. 1945)