Two Perspectives on Tamir Rice
A couple worthwhile pieces on Tamir Rice. The first is from JayFromBrooklyn, who was not itching to come to the defense of the police, but nonetheless came to the conclusion that the non-indictment was...
View ArticleAnother Post I Wish I’d Written
I was thinking about taking to fisk President Obama’s call for “common sense” gun control legislation that I heard part of on the radio driving to work this morning because parts of it… just didn’t sit...
View ArticleFreddie’s Dishonor Roll
For those of you unawares, the media was duped by a fake account purporting to be Ammon Bundy, son of Clive and a part of that mess in Oregon. The most high-profile case is Shaun King, who wrote an...
View ArticleIslamic Shibboleths
M.G. Oprea doesn’t like the way you talk. Or, to be more specific, she doesn’t like the way some of you choose to pronounce Islamic words, but not other words: Pronouncing ‘Islam’ and ‘Muslim’ in an...
View ArticleFrom New Jersey to Illinois…
This: An Illinois appellate court has ruled that part of a law that allows nonprofit hospitals to avoid paying millions of dollars in property taxes is unconstitutional, according to the Chicago...
View ArticleRunning For A Cause
Hey, everyone! I’ve had the good fortune of being selected to run on the Bergen County Habitat for Humanity’s NYC Half-Marathon team. I grew up in Bergen County and am excited to take advantage of an...
View ArticleName That Team!
So I mentioned to my wife that Los Angeles now has a football team again. The Los Angeles Rams, back again after two decades. My wife protested that there are no rams in Los Angeles. Now, there are...
View ArticleWhat Passes For A Profile In Courage These Days
There are a lot of things I disagree with the man about, but this… I think any hateful rhetoric directed at anyone from any source is too much. It’s something that we need to get away from. We have to...
View ArticlePresented with minimal comment
Periodically, I like to reread Dorothy Thompson’s 1941 Harper’s article “Who Goes Nazi?” I found myself thinking about this essay again recently and it remains as good an article as ever.
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He Can’t Take It With Him, After All
Image by thecomeupshow Last March, I advised you all about the release of Once Upon A Time In Shaolin, the literal one-off album by the surviving members of critically acclaimed hip-hop collective...
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Stories are everything.
As January winds down, I find myself growing deeply sentimental about this place, and also too about writing, and about telling stories. And so when I came upon this quote today over at Longreads — a...
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Dr. Joseph Waligore’s Latest
On the issue of religion and the American Founding, Dr. Joseph Waligore is one of my favorite scholars most people have never heard of. Here is his latest accessible at JSTOR entitled “The Christian...
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