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Glass have empty, or glass half full?

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Sometimes it takes an act of bigotry to see how far we’ve come. A church in Kentucky took what its members no doubt thought was a perfectly reasonable racist action recently:  When Stella Harville brought her black boyfriend to her family’s all-white church in rural Kentucky, she thought nothing of it. She and Ticha Chikuni […]

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Harry Belafonte on Colbert

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Nice segment with Harry Belafonte on Colbert: The Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive

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Who would have thunk?

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Every once in a while you see something that is not only pretty neat in its own right, but just makes you feel good about your fellow man. For some reason this story, which I guess is making the rounds, gave me a real good feeling when I read it: As fanciful as it may […]

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Some Political Predictions about the hurricane

Saturday, August 27, 2011

What we might expect to hear: 1. Obama failed to take the hurricane’s threat seriously and failed to lead. Also, from the same folks, Obama overreacted. Also, still from the same folks, Obama should have left the hurricane to the professionals and by interjecting himself into the situation he was merely engaging in political grandstanding […]

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Connecticut has bragging rights too

Monday, June 27, 2011

Nice pictures from parade celebrating the gay marriage bill in New York. I was interested in this story in the Globe, in which several folks from the state to the North gloat about the fact that they beat New York to the punch. That’s all true, but I think Connecticut’s experience puts us above all […]

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More tornadoes in the Southland

Friday, April 29, 2011

As I write this I am sitting in a train station in North Charleston, SC. We heard on the news this morning that a tornado ripped through Alabama and is heading into North Carolina, possibly back to the Fayetteville area, where we were a few days ago, and which suffered tornado damage a short while […]

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There’s no success like failure

Monday, April 4, 2011

From the Department of You Couldn’t Make This Up: Transocean Ltd. gave its top executives bonuses for achieving the “best year in safety performance in our company’s history” – despite the explosion of its oil rig that killed 11 people and spilled 200 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. It’s truly a […]

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Delivering lives of quiet desperation, one sucker at a time

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Today, as I was rambling through the internet, I came upon an advertisement for an institution of higher learning: Walden University. At first I thought it must be a joke. Isn’t Walden the college for slackers made famous in Doonesbury? Indeed, it is, though in the comics the institution is, if I’m not mistaken, a […]

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Report from Boston

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

We are in Boston at the moment. Some friends of ours got tickets to Hair, and we joined them here to see the show last night. We got here early yesterday, so I did a little exploring in the environs. The old Town Hall is across the street from our hotel, and I came across […]

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A sign of hope

Friday, March 18, 2011

A bit of controversy about an SAT question, that read as follows: Reality television programs, which feature real people engaged in real activities rather than professional actors performing scripted scenes, are increasingly popular. These shows depict ordinary people competing in everything from singing and dancing to losing weight, or just living their everyday lives. Most […]

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