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The pointlessness of these protests
According to my local (Birmingham, Alabama) newscast last night (December 8, 2014), there were protests in Talladega, Alabama over the Ferguson and New York City cases where local grand juries had...
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A short history of rape
Is all sex rape, or is all rape sex? By itself, the act of intercourse, of inserting a man’s penis into a woman’s vagina, is the most natural thing in the world. A man’s erect penis craves encasement...
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Birmingham, Alabama’s Black Community might want to rethink its protests...
The Black community in Birmingham, Alabama plans to join the protests over the two Grand Juries’ refusal to indict for murder the police officers in Ferguson, MO and New York City whose actions led to...
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Book Review (or actually, rebuttal): “The Better Angels of Our Nature–Why...
Contrary to the book’s title, Pinker doesn’t really explain why violence has declined, except perhaps to assert that the better angels of our nature have mysteriously begun to hold sway over our...
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Je Suis Charlie Coulibaly and the US Supreme Court Doctrine of Fighting Words
There is a French comedian sitting in jail for posting Je suis Charlie Coulibaly to his Facebook page after the massacres in France last week. Coulibaly is the name of the gunman who killed a...
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The US Supreme Court could fix the gay marriage mess in Alabama with a...
What happens in Vegas doesn’t really stay there. Particularly not if you swing by one of those wedding chapels for a quickie ceremony. A Vegas marriage is just as legally enforceable in all fifty...
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Maybe the New York Times can do a graphic on witch burnings in the Northeast
It would be nice if I one day opened the New York Times website and, no matter how hard I looked, couldn’t find an article denigrating Alabama or the South. The Southern denigration de jour is served...
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It’s always Groundhog Day* in Alabama
(A reference to the movie of the same name starring Bill Murray as a television reporter covering Groundhog Day festivities who finds he is condemned to suffering an endless loop of repeats of the same...
View ArticlePoking around the attic on a lazy, rainy springtime Sunday
Sometimes a sprinkle of crazy is just the spice that makes the music nice Austin City Limits aired a James Taylor concert last night. While his lilting voice crooned the familiar hits and a few new...
View ArticleWhat Black Lives Matter is Really About
It’s misnamed. Should be either Only Black Lives Matter (OBLM). Or, the Black Power Movement (BPM). It’s not about systemic racism. Systemic racism is just an amorphous term that can mean anything...
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