It’s Old School Friday and the theme is “Soul Train“. It appears most performers on Soul Train lip synced their songs, as you can clearly see in the following video as David Bowie, being one of the first white people, on a minuscule list of maybe 3 white people, to …
Injustice Here, Injustice There, Injustice Injustice, Everywhere
While we’re on justice let’s look at the case of Troy Davis, digressing slightly for a moment. Nisha recently wrote about Iran’s execution of Delara Darabi, wondering why there wasn’t more coverage of the case by mainstream media. Darabi, a juvenile when the crime was perpetrated, having originally confessed to …
Don’t Punish Me With Brutality
A disturbing precedent concerning murder of the foreign born — there was no indication that those who beat Luis Ramirez to death knew he was an undocumented immigrant — has been set in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Teenagers Not Guilty in Fatal Beating A Mexican man named Luis Ramirez was beaten …
Old Man on Old School Friday
This weeks Old School Friday is “family picnic barbecue or reunion”. Distinct parts — we call them sects — of my family are into different things. At one end, the end for which Teetotalism is not an option, someone would inevitably start, à la Beetle Juice, to sing the banana …
The First 101 Days
I’m a day or so late. This, a fifteen minute break I am taking while finishing a paper that seems longer than most dissertations. I’m happy we no longer torture, but disappointed we won’t consider prosecution, or at least trying those who did torture. Unmindful of our mindlessness we use …
