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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 [...]
Last week I had lunch with a friend of mine. We were talking about each other’s businesses and our profile, so to speak, on Twitter. He said that in general he liked things I said, but wished I didn’t concentrate on race as much. I said a lot of things to him in explaining why [...]
