This was posted "friends only" (I got her permission to use it) by a left-center friend over on FB ...

I was originally scheduled to do this speech next week, but things were sort of screwed up tonight (the weather really sucked an a lot of folks were…
Well, went and did Speech #3 tonight ... pretty short notice given that I just got done writing it on Monday, but it went well enough. It was called…
OK, so I was casting about for a topic for my next Toastmasters speech and somehow the 1959 book You Will Go To The Moon popped into my head. I…