Monthly Archives: July 2010
PERSONAL OBSERVATION ON A PERSONAL MATTER.
Does that ever happen to you, something that once belonged to a parent and it was passed down.
But it brings out a difference between you and them?
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Saturday, 7/31/10, Public Square
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. – Dr. Seuss
Filed under The Public Square
“I’m in love with her and I feel fine!”
“I’m so glad, that she’s my little girl! She’s so glad, she’s telling all the world. That her baby buys her things, you know. He buys her diamond rings, you know. She said so! I’m in love with her and … Continue reading
Filed under American Society, Music
Annie, get your gun!
So, what to do? You’re at a BBQ with a mixed bag of friends, some liberal, others conservative, and the conversations are beginning to drag. What to do? Well, you could suggest a game of “pictionary” or some lawn bowling. … Continue reading
Filed under Gun control
Homosexuality Part III
I am a straight white man, so my view of discrimination is only what I can observe or read about. The closest that I have come to experiencing discrimination was in my “Hippie” years, when my long hair prompted an … Continue reading
Filed under GLBT Rights
Homosexuality Part II
Mention “Gay Rights” in virtually any group of people and be prepared for a “spirited” debate. In those exchanges, I am regularly “accused” of being gay since “you must be gay to support those perverts.” Well, I’m not gay, but … Continue reading
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Homosexuality Part I
(In the interest of full disclosure, your not so humble columnist is a heterosexual man and therefore is less than qualified to write on this subject, but I am the only one here, so somebody has to do it.) In … Continue reading
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WHITE PRIVILEGE
Take some time and think back over your personal life, list the times that the color of your skin has been a personal privilege? And the times the color of your skin has been a personal disadvantage? Not another persons … Continue reading
Filed under Original writings, Racial equality
