I sat down today to write about the heinous, inhuman and grotesque crimes committed by a group of teenagers in Steubenville, Ohio – two of whom “allegedly” dragged an incapacitated drunk girl from party to party to be sodomized, raped, urinated on, and mocked online. For some reason, I’m coming up blank. Thanks, Brent. Yes, […]
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Money for Nothing
Thank you, Michael Moore. Thank you for saying much of what I’ve been thinking for the last week in this article you wrote, but haven’t gotten my act together enough to write myself. I think you got the racial analysis wrong, but I love the rest of it. Thanks for admitting that the NRA’s […]
Ballerinas on the Moon
In honor of Thank A Teacher Day: the following is a slightly edited version of a post I wrote for Catonsville Patch over a year ago. You can read the original version here. The lilting, closing notes to Brahms’ Waltz in A Flat Major still rang in the air. (We had an actual pianist playing an […]
If Not Now, When?
Dear America, We need to talk. I love you very much. You are a magnificent place to live, grow up, and enjoy freedoms the strongest democracy on earth can provide. Like any human body with an illness, though, as much as you’d like to look away, you shouldn’t. You have complex and deep sicknesses afflicting […]
Gun Control or Domestic Violence?
After the Jovan Belcher murder/suicide, I had the following discussion on Facebook with my friend, fellow Murrow-ite, New Yorker, and blogger, Chris Cataudella. Please read and discuss. Aliza Worthington So, all the articles you posted on gun control not being the issue in the Belcher crimes reminds me of a really smart thing some really […]
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