Finding Grateful
I feel a very unusual sensation — if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude. -Benjamin Disraeli When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around. -Willie Nelson According to some of my Facebook friends, November is an unofficial month of gratitude, where each day a participating person is supposed ...
A brief history of racism
Last week, the Associated Press and other news outlets reported that racial attitudes have gotten worse, not better, since the United States elected its first African American president four years ago in 2008. Those who admitted to having anti-African American feelings rose from 48% in 2008 to 51% in 2012. If the researchers included implicit ...
Jenny Sanford – have you considered a political run?
CNN reported that Jenny Sanford was quoted as saying that her husband’s political career was not a concern of hers, and that whether or not he was in her future, she would not only survive but thrive. Where was this woman when McCain was looking for a female GOP running mate to take Hillary swing ...
RIP Michael Jackson and Farah Fawcett
Michael Jackson and Farah Fawcett both died within 5 miles of each other yesterday – Thursday, June 25, 2009 – in West Los Angeles. The only other time that I can remember two such celebrities dying within such a short period of time was in late August, 1997, when both Mother Teresa (in India) and ...
AIG
Why have the public waited until the AIG bonuses scandal to become outraged? This behavior on the part of failing companies is par for the course in the world of people who disapprove of handouts, except when it comes to themselves. The banks and investment houses that received government bailouts also gave their executives large ...
Proposition to end the madness in California
I didn’t get fired up about voting no on proposition 8 in California, and I regret it. I took for granted how well organized the religious right is and how well smear tactics have worked, and I assumed that Prop 8 would not pass. It did pass, and now our court systems will be bogged ...
