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Jun.17.2013
A recent phone conversation:
A good-looking guy on his Verizon car phone riding home from work: “Hey baby.”
A better-looking blonde lady, wearing a revealing nighty, with large breasts, lying on a bed: “Hey.”
Guy: “What do you want to do tonight when I get...
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Jun.11.2013
Remember the words of Walt Whitman, more than a hundred years ago:
"To the States, or any one of them, or any city of the States,
Resist much, obey little;
Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved;
Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city, of this earth
ever afterward resumes its...
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Mar.01.2013
I was astonished and disappointed at a recent book store event when the speaker, an esteemed university professor for whom I have great respect, denounced as sexist the terms "jailbait" and "poison" used by “the men” in Of Mice and Men regarding Curley's wife. The offensive language was the...
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Jan.19.2013
Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)
For those who ask the question, "Aren't you a civil rights leader?" and thereby mean to exclude me from the movement for peace, I have this further answer. In 1957 when a group of us formed the Southern Christian Leadership...
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Jan.10.2013
Lance Armstrong's confession was there all along, if you knew where and how to look. As a result, I suggested we all consider forgiving Armstrong for his past transgressions and try to move on with what cycling will become in the wake of the Lance Armstrong era, which occupied our...
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Dec.04.2012
Let the word go forth this holiday season. Glory, glory hallelujah, the culture war is over.
November 6th, 2012, was VC day, the day the fifty-year war for the...
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Jul.25.2012
"Virginia," we don't use last names in hospice, "has a reputation as a hard case," the volunteer coordinator told me. When I knocked at her door, Virginia's neighbor David introduced me to Virgie and her dachshund, Maxwell. "Really hateful, so watch your ankles," David warned. Did he mean...
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Jul.17.2012
The temptation to keep updating my new book, “The Fight for Home: How (Parts of) New Orleans Came Back,” is overwhelming. But since it’s due to come out August 6th from Bloomsbury, I’ll have to be content to send addendums your way.
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Jul.17.2012
The temptation to keep updating my new book, “The Fight for Home: How (Parts of) New Orleans Came Back,” is overwhelming. But since it’s due to come out August 6th from Bloomsbury, I’ll have to be content to send addendums your way.
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Jun.20.2012
Ok granted…compared to some of my counterparts
I’m the geek in the room who the “dumb blond” jokes are directed at
I get it and to be honest… it’s ok
I’m the one in the room that doesn’t instantly get offended by terminologies, jokes or articles that incite calls of stereotypes and racial...
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