#Pocalypso | “Thin Blue Line” Divides the Country
2020-06-17 – Have you seen the “thin blue line” flag that police supporters are waving? I find it weirdly revealing. If I were motivated to rally round the police, I […]
Tag Archives: Culture
#Pocalypso | Good News for a Change: LGBT Protected by Civil Rights Law
2020-06-15 – Good news in a season of bad news: the Supreme Court ruled today that Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act protects LGBT workers from job discrimination. […]
#Pocalypso | Dear 2020 Graduates . . .
2020-06-12 – Dear 2020 Graduates: Congratulations on your achievement! I know that your final year didn’t turn out as you expected. Graduation is supposed to be a fun and exciting […]
#Pocalypso | I Don’t Believe in Equality
2020-06-09 – I don’t believe in equality. But at the same time, I don’t believe someone should get a leg up because their daddy was a billionaire or because of […]
#Pocalypso | Re-Engineering Public Safety
2020-06-08 – If you’re horrified by the idea of “abolishing” or “defunding” police, I hear you. There are some bad people in the world. We need protection. But let me […]
#Pocalypso | If You Don’t Feel Safe In Your Home
2020-06-05 – One of the most frequent justifications I hear for keeping guns in your home is safety. People say they can’t rely on the police to protect their families […]
#Pocalypso | 21st Human Rights Awards
2020-06-03 – Ayer por la tarde (yesterday evening), I attended (virtually) the 21st Human Rights Awards sponsored by the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC). That’s the organization I do volunteer […]
Final Jeopardy Question: Kristallnacht? Or the End of Trump?
2020-06-02 – Yesterday, Donald Trump made a speech of sorts to the nation threatening to dominate looters and rioters. Like all Trump speeches it was a hodge-podge of slogans, but […]
#Pocalypso | It Will Take Forever to Read this Novel!
2020-05-29 – I may have mentioned here that I am studying Spanish. Sometimes it seems slow going. Sometimes it surprises me how much I’ve learned. I’ve been working on it […]
#Pocalypso | Harvard v. University of Chicago
2020-05-28 – Harvard versus the University of Chicago. That’s what stood out for me when I read the New York Times story about the white woman in Central Park who […]
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