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This has been a trending topic lately. I thought I would throw in my two cents since I think I have a unique perspective on it. I work in a place where I am a distinct minority. I am a white male on a faculty and staff where there is only one other employee that matches my demographic. We are talking about a staff of 40 teachers and probably that many assorted paraprofessionals and support...

It has been almost a week since I wrote last and I have a pretty good excuse. A relative of my wife's passed away over the weekend. I wasn't going to bring my computer and my Iphone ended up going on the fritz on the way back home. My customer service experience with Apple will be the subject of another column soon. Suffice it to say, everything is almost back to normal after the ten...

This subject has been hit hard, but I couldn't let it go by. I've been in education for thirteen years and I've spent ten of them teaching history. I've taught U.S. History and World History and it might be a bit of an exaggeration, but I hold history to be sacred. Therefore, I was saddened by the actions of the Texas School board this past week. Texas is the biggest market for textbook writers, so...

My wife was talking with a co-worker the other day about the Haitian situation and their conversation steered to Katrina. She and the co-worker spent a good portion of their lives living in or around New Orleans. My wife is a graduate from Tulane and lived a good portion of her childhood in Baton Rouge. I love visiting every so often because the food is spectacular and the people are always very nice. However, those...

When I think of Christmas Carols I think of happy songs about time with family or rejoicing the birth of Jesus.  Songs like The Little Drummer Boy, White Christmas, Silent Night, and Frosty the Snowman will always bring me back to my childhood and will hopefully become cherished holiday songs for my young sons.  I feel many of us in this country feel the same way, but apparently not everyone feels the same way.  The right-wing...

Note the man in the NRA cap: "It's basically to embarrass America, which is what this administration's all about. Let's embarrass America...embarrass Western civilization, embarrass the white race." 　 More of those happy Republicans non-partisan patriots....

In my opinion, there's no bigotry worse than bigotry cloaked in religion. More dangerous than the guys in the hoods and sheets are the snakes in 3-piece suits who stand behind pulpits claiming to be followers of Christ while spewing hate for their fellow man. Here is the latest in what is getting to be an increasingly long line of "pastors" who fit that description, Grant Swank, of the New Hope Church in Windham, Maine....

Where does the hate-filled rhetoric of the far-right lead? When Rush Limbaugh says "we're just a couple notches above what hell must be like, and we're still spiraling down."When Limbaugh says that Gallup is "upping the sample of black Americans" to keep President Obama's approval rating at 50%. When Glenn Beck says the passage of health care reform will be "a nail in the coffin of America" and "the end of America as you know...

To those of us who have been around the blogs for about the last 18 months this data from Public Policy Polling should come as no surprise:"PPP's newest national survey finds that a 52% majority of GOP voters nationally think that ACORN stole the Presidential election for Barack Obama last year, with only 27% granting that he won it legitimately...Overall 62% of Americans think Obama legitimately won the election to only 26% who think ACORN...

The Washington Times dug far deeper than their usual low standards yesterday in an opinion piece by Wesley Pruden, with maybe the most despicable piece of racist garbage I've read outside of Stormfront. It starts with a slam at President Obama over his bow to Emperor Hirohito of Japan:"A little traveling, like a little learning, can be a dangerous thing. Barack Obama on the loose in a foreign land is enough to frighten protocol officers...