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It’s Black History Month 2012 style, and this year I’m doing things a little bit different. In previous year’s posts I’ve talked about why the month is still needed and asked some questions that, frankly, were downers. This years I’m going to change some things up, as well as highlight the past. via Flickr First, [...]
Today is the holiday to celebrate once again the birthday of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. I don’t think I’ve ever said this before but every year this holiday comes up I think of how strange it is to have a holiday named after someone who was alive when I was alive. To me, it [...]
Over the last few weeks I’ve seen and heard some disturbing things. The latest was the tale of a young woman who got home from picking up a pizza she’d ordered, looked at the receipt and saw that one of the people at the place has written about her “lady chinky eyes”. What the heck [...]
“If you don’t stand for something you’ll fall for anything.” Unfortunately I can’t tell you who the quote is from because it’s pretty much in dispute, but it doesn’t matter because it’s a great quote anyway. I was prompted to think about this quote as I was having lunch with someone earlier today. As she [...]
I’ve been writing this blog for almost 7 years now, and I noticed that I’ve never said “Merry Christmas” in any posts here, and only used it once in a title, that being last year when I posted a video of Josh Groban singing O Holy Night. I don’t think I’ve used the phrase in [...]
I had an interesting experience yesterday that I’d like to share with you. I’m wondering if you’ll get the message here or if you’ll miss it; let’s find out. I went to pick my mother up to bring her to the town I live in for Thanksgiving. She’s going to be staying with a friend [...]
At the beginning of last week we were treated to two Freudian slips, if you will, from a politician and a political pundit. Both were aimed at President Obama, which figures because he’s been the direct recipient of them since he took the presidency. On one end was a congressman who, in a conversation, referred [...]
