the road to hell
A few days ago, the construction site of a Muslim community center in a suburb of Nashville, TN was attacked by arsonists. Construction equipment was damaged and destroyed. Although no person or...
View Articlesexual torture in america's prisons
The town I grew up in, Addison, Maine, has around 1200 residents. If I were to tell you that in an average year, around 53 of those residents were horribly raped, how would you react? Would you...
View ArticleLabor Day, Trade Unions, and My Buddy Jack
Let me tell you about my friends Diane and Jack, and why I consider Labor Day one of America's most important holidays.Jack is a journeyman ironworker, currently working in New York City on the 9/11...
View ArticleOf the Devil? The Beam in Terry Jones' Eye
There's a church in Gainesville, Florida ( http://www.doveworld.org/ ) that's planning on burning as many copies of the Qur'an as they can find on September 11. They've even set up a Facebook group to...
View ArticleAre we sliding towards (National) Socialism?
Back in 1919, a German gentleman named Anton Drexler and five associates founded the German Worker's Party, hoping to represent the downtrodden workers of Germany: the poor, the unrepresented, the...
View ArticleCitizen Journalism: Alive and Well
There's an unfortunate attitude among many members of law enforcement organizations that they are themselves above the law. You need look no further than a cursory Google search on abuses of power by...
View ArticleFear and Loathing for Sanity
Driving to our nation's capital from Southern Virginia, you pass by a whole lot of military and governmental installations: Belvoir, Quantico, Alexandria, and others. I was driving near Richmond,...
View ArticleThere but for the grace of somebody
The other day, I was out shopping with my wife and son - my father had sent him some bookstore gift cards for Christmas, so we were taking advantage of post-holiday sales. On our way in to the store,...
View ArticleProfessional Courtesy
Welp.My wife, Mimi, had been in communication with a recruiter for some job up in Connecticut, and the topic of salary came up. She was countering his offer with a request for a higher wage, because...
View ArticleOn The Wrong LePage
(in response to the article found at http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/... ) I grew up in Maine, and though we do have a few tall buildings, it is by no means a 'city' sort of state. You will not...
View ArticleTime For a New Dream
Here's the thing.The American Dream has been twisted around and built up and made so impossible that not only is it something that can never really happen for most Americans, but it also lends itself...
View ArticleInherent Race Privilege in American Culture: An Overview
If, like me, you're a white person in America, you have certain privileges that are afforded to you simply by virtue of your skin tone, whether or not you want to admit it. Those privileges also don't...
View ArticleRolling Jubilee
Recently, I read about the Rolling Jubilee – an offshoot of the OWS organization that focuses on buying up debt and forgiving it entirely – giving random Americans in crisis a surprise that could spell...
View ArticleNo Rest for the Wicked or the Innocent Alike
In Judeo-Christian tradition, three days are set aside for the dead to find their way to heaven. This is also a time for the families of the departed to grieve, but to grieve knowing that members of...
View Articleeighty bucks and deamonte driver
Deamonte Driver, who lived not far from where I live, would have been looking forward to his 23rd birthday this year, a young life at the very peak of its potential - instead, his mother is looking at...
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