I think Ross Mirkarimi, the 5th District Supervisor in San Francisco was the only elected Politician that I saw speak at the kickoff rally for San Francisco's Peace March on Saturday September 24th. (I'm told that Barbara Lee spoke at the  rally in Washington DC, and had a representative read the same speech here.) Answering the question "Why are you here", he said that feeling the way he does about this war and this administration, he had a moral obligation to be there. He wasn't the only one. See my pictures of his fellow travelers by clicking somewhere in his picture above.
        

I wasn't going to go to Burning Man this year. Seeing my friends getting ready for it, I had to dredge through past burned men. (Click below for those pictures.) Then somebody called and said they had left their ticket behind by accident, and did I want it? I went up the Thursday afternoon before Labor Day... Click above to see what I saw.