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I Can’t Imagine — Trauma, Depression, The Truth, African-Americans, and Travon Martin
I just finished watching the Rep. of Travon Martin’s Florida district, Frederica Wilson, speak about the tragedy that happened in her community. Here’s the link to the speech: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/23/trayvon-martin-reactions_n_1376046.html?ref=topbar#s809240&title=Frederica_Wilson. Once again, the press missed the boat on this one. The description of the link says: “Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) denounced shooter George Zimmerman as “a renegade…
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Promises Not Kept? What Happened To “A Man’s Word Is His Bond”?
I was flipping through some newspaper-or-other on line, and began following the Doonesbury cartoons that many papers have chosen to not print. The version of them I found was in the LA Times. Down in the corner was a small article re: my alma mater, Cal State University, Los Angeles. Actually the article was about…
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Couldn’t Happen To A Nicer Guy… Rush and America
I just got done watching Steven Colbert’s take on the whole Rush Limbaugh scandal about contraception and a Georgetown Law Student. Sadly, I learned something. There weren’t just a few quips about the student. “Slut” and “prostitute” were not the only names he called her. There was a lot of talk about the woman who wanted to…
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Whose Body Is It Anyway? Birth Control Pills and Women in America
There seems to be a really bizarre movement going through our Congress which involves birth control and the Federal Government or Catholic Hospitals and Insurance and President Obama and Politics. The most outrageous of them is something like a Congressional hearing where the one woman who wanted to speak was removed because she had no…
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Matters
“Matters” means a lot of different things 1) Something to do, as in “take care of these matters right away”. 2) Something important, as in “that matters to me” 3) Something with mass or weight, the thing in physics that’s not energy. It’s the stuff that exists . That last one is kind of odd.…
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