Of all of the counties, in all of the battleground states in this election, there is only one who is still counting votes: Palm Beach County. If the name sounds familiar, it’s because this is the same county that played… Read More ›
Social Justice
A Nation Divided Against Itself
November 6th, 2012: It will be a day that marks the 57th time that the American people have come together to elect their President. It’s worth noting that only for the last 12 of these eruptions of democracy have all… Read More ›
Love is Love & Love is the Law: Same-Sex Marriage in America
“A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.” – Mahatma Gandhi The piece of scripture that is most commonly associated with the battle over same-sex marriage comes from Chapter 18 of the Book of… Read More ›
Every Vote Counts, Depending on Who Counts It
“More men have been elected between sundown and sunup than ever were elected between sunup and sundown.” – Will Rogers I cast my ballot for the 2012 presidential election today and I have no idea where it went or if… Read More ›
Who’s Up For Some Drug Supply Whack-a-Mole?
After almost four decades of The War on Drugs, President Obama and his administration finally declared a ceasefire during his first year in office. Regardless of your views on the efficacy and earnestness of this declaration, the fact remains that… Read More ›
They Have To Take You: Mitt Romney and ER Healthcare
Based on his recent comments, it would appear that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney supports a radical overhaul of preventative healthcare in America—namely in that he wants to prevent 50 million of us from getting it. Over the past few… Read More ›
Alabama Brings Back “Separate But Equal” for HIV+ Prisoners
“People speak sometimes about the ‘bestial’ cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts. No animal could ever be so cruel as a man—so artfully, so artistically cruel.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky There are few people in… Read More ›
Chicago Teachers Learn How To Hold ‘Em…And Possibly Fold ‘Em
A couple of years ago, I was interviewed for a position at a public school in Cincinnati. The job was some bizarre franken-mesh of an English teacher and an IT guy that sounded as if it had been pulled out… Read More ›
19th Century Labor Day Blues
Labor day is about as much a celebration of the American worker as Thanksgiving is a tribute to Native Americans. I’m sure American Indians rejoice in the irony of a nation celebrating their Wampanoag forefathers’ benevolence by gorging our honky… Read More ›
Torture Me Softly
To members of the CIA, it was known as “The Salt Pit”. For those that were shackled and beaten there, it was simply “The Dark Prison.” In actuality it was an abandoned brick factory north of Kabul that had been… Read More ›
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