My reaction to Sen. Edwards' drive for the Democratic Presidential nomination has something to do with the political lessons I learned while sitting on the knee of my Grandfather George Frink.

He had endured the Depression Era South chronicled by C. Vann Woodward, and had seen men starve while others grew rich.

Grandaddy sometimes still ached with memories of the years before I was born, when small children with bloated bellies stood crying with hunger along the Columbus County back roads we traveled.

To my ear, North Carolina Sen. John Edwards hit exactly the right note last week when he told those at the Writers Guild of America rally in Manhattan, "We’re all in this together.”

We are. The writers will either win fair pay for their work, and give us all a better chance when we have to stand on the other side of the table from big corporations, or we will all lose:

Sometimes, the right way is clear.

In the century before us, writers of all kinds will face these issues, whether it is comedy they write, or software.

Our commonality of interest with the Writers Guild may seem unclear to most of us now, but in time, it will not be. Help them, so that this one precedent will be set in your favor, and we will all have a better chance with the next. For this is about fundamental issues, like bread on the table.