I really didn’t have any intention of writing about Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech today. I fully expected that it would be an OK speech, but it would be mild enough and with enough stumbles and gaffes that nobody would be all that excited about it. After all, under the heading of worthless …
This won’t be a particularly long post. Just some food for thought and one very basic question. When I was a kid in school and learning about civics, one thing I remember was that our justice system was intended to be slanted toward the rights of the accused. We learned that it was better to …
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What happens when one side plays by the rules and the other doesn’t? What happens when the people on one side of an issue believe they are more worthy than the other, or that they are good and the other side is evil? What happens then? You have Donald Trump’s America. There appear to be …
Back in the day when Facebook was fun, when I was still living in Southern California, I was challenged to do a list of 15 albums that had such a profound effect on me they changed my life. Dug into my soul. Music that brought me to life when I heard it. This was where …
When I first moved to Georgia in November 2010 something happened weather-wise during the first winter that showed me just how different things were here than out west. We had what was considered a terrible snowstorm. In fact, we haven’t had as much snow in 13 winters since. Two inches. You must mean two feet. …
March is not my favorite month. Far from it, in fact. Some of the worst things that have happened to me happened in March, and it was just four years ago that I had a shocking and painful loss when a close friend died unexpectedly. Brandt Heatherington was a fraternity brother of mine from Sigma …
“We in the United States, above all, must remember that lesson, for we were founded as a nation of openness to people of all beliefs. And so we must remain. Our very unity has been strengthened by our pluralism. We establish no religion in this country, we command no worship, we mandate no belief, nor …
A very interesting man died a few months ago. Charles Hamilton died November 18th at the age of 94. It wasn’t announced until this week because Hamilton was a very private man. He was a college professor who coauthored a very important book in 1967. Hamilton and Stokely Carmichael wrote “Black Power: The Politics of …
“You know the definition of a virgin down South? It’s a girl who can run faster than her brother.”— IAN FLEMING, “Goldfinger” Just when Alabama was starting to escape from the 19th century, Republicans started electing some truly horrific senators. First there was Rapin’ Roy Moore, , who in his thirties was so aggressive pursuing …
I had never heard of Karoline Leavitt until about ten minutes before I sat down to write this. I was reading an article on Crooks & Liars, one of my favorite sites for political news and commentary, when I came across her name. The article was titled “Trump’s Campaign Once Again Wishes He Would Shut …
