Recommended Reading

Tasers, Truth and Lessons Learned (Buck Naked Politics)
Unrestrained ego can be an unfortunate character trait. Such was the case for Andrew Meyer, the journalism student tasered by University of Florida police (UPD) at Monday’s speech by Senator John Kerry.
This was not a case of his freedom of speech being denied. This was a case [...]

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Some days (In My Opinion)
So, it’s a vicious circle. I have chosen this road for myself, and yet I feel like part of me wants to build that part of my life again. Maybe I just like being alone because at heart I am a selfish person and can’t be bothered with anybody else. Maybe [...]

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Thursday Thirteen #111: Thirteen Ways I Learned About Racism (Wacky Mommy)
I learned about racism when my friends had their house firebombed, windows broken, furniture on their front porch burned, in the early ’90s. They are an interracial couple — a woman (African-American and Native American), her husband (white), and they lived with a female roommate [...]

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DC Protest Spawns Undue Hatred (Buck Naked Politics)
Most Americans don’t have security clearance; thus, most American’s opinions on the war are based on other people’s opinions. Is disagreement over whose opinions to trust a valid reason for hating fellow Americans?
And does such hatred do anything to further the war effort or bring our troops home [...]

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A lesson too late for the learning? (Around the Island)
What I learned that day, and what I strive to remember every day since then, is this:

What unites us is much, MUCH stronger than that which divides us.

As a society, we need to learn that lesson. It’s still not too late. We can’t let it be [...]

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September 12 (Thudfactor)
For six years we have been trying to persevere, to protect what is American, to live our lives like citizens who own their own government. But this administration has spent six years explaining that terrorists changed everything when they flew planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. And that America [...]

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The Jena Six (Brilliant At Breakfast)
Remember the highly-publicized burial of the N-word a few months ago?
It was premature.
I can hear a loud knocking coming from inside the coffin. It’s like that horrifying scene at the end of Carrie when her hand surges upward from the grave. It’s alive as long as the hatred that [...]

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Two Years Ago Today (KMcDougan’s Place)
We are responsible for our own actions. We must pick ourselves up. It is not a Road Home program, or FEMA money that will save us. We must do it. I have great hope and faith in the movements against violence in our city. The people are trying to take [...]

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A Few Simple Rules for Imperfect Politicians (Buck Naked Politics)
In the ’90s, Bill Clinton had extra-marital sex and lied about it. What made Clinton easier to forgive than say, Newt Gingrich (who reportedly had extra-marital sex while attacking Clinton for infidelity), is that Clinton didn’t publicly condemn people to hell for adultery.

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