Quite often these days I find Facebook to be depressing, offensive, and/or disgusting.
But, this afternoon, I ran across a post that gave me just a little cause for optimism, like Pandora looking at the bottom of the box and finding Hope.
The post apparently went up yesterday, but it only burbled up into my news feed this afternoon. Mr. Zuckerberg took pity on me, I guess.
The picture above, and several others, were posted by Dawn Marie Gonzalez who also wrote, in pertinent part, "Many of the Associate Judge candidates met at the Erie Cafe tonight to celebrate our boot camp gauntlet experience together. Little did we know that Jim Thome would take our group picture with Jerry Reinsdorf!"
As you can see, someone also took a picture of Jim Thome taking the picture.
What makes this Facebook post special is not the presence of celebreties but, rather, the presence of good will and comradeship at the end of a campaign in which 50% of those running will lose. They could have easily fallen upon each other -- but here is evidence that they supported each other instead.
This solidarity is what can make---what should make---judicial campaigns special. Good luck to all of them.