I had expected a Quickening, but not before Christmas. This is from a Vietnam vet, Infantry platoon leader, college roommate one year, a fine prosecutor, then judge, and a good courthouse philosopher of Thomas Jefferson’s ilk: We will have to…
Category: Military and Veterans
The Timeline of Freedom, How and Why
I want to tell this story as it was seen and heard the first time in a classroom filled with black mothers, and their babies in a nursery across the hall….in the 1990s. In 1996 I began teaching a…
Famous Uncommon People I Have Known: Russian Bad vs Ukraine Bad, Things you May Not Know
Part 1., In 1989 I packed my bags and moved to an office in Northern Kentucky just opposite Cincinnati. It was not important to me at the time, but Cincinnati had just established a Sister City relationship with Kharkov,…
White Privilege and the Privilege “to be American”- (Ser Americano)
For many years now the American academy has been besieged with the theme of “white privilege,” which holds to the notion that being born white carries its own guilt based on a sense of superiority which even the most innocent white person may not realize. In…
Recalling the lost “Modern” Girls of Politics in New York
In 2011 I posted a really delightful piece…since I didn’t really write it, largely a cut-and-paste job…called “Meet the Girls of New York; the Original Grand Dames of New York were Republicans” and mostly taken from the pages of “The…