Month: December 2014

I Wasn’t Prepared for This

My colleague Ed Kilgore was raised in Georgia which gives him a totally different perspective than I got being raised in the relatively “enlightened” and idyllic Ivy League town of Princeton, New Jersey. What Ed...

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Free Speech Isn’t Easy

Mark Twain advised us to “Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.” Good advice, perhaps, but not the end of the story. This kind of acquiescence in the face of injustice did not impress Martin...

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The St. Louis Police Department is Upset

From the “Awww, Poor Baby” Files: Reacting to five members of the St. Louis Rams coming onto the field for Sunday’s game displaying the ‘hands up, don’t shoot’ gesture, a St. Louis police officers fraternal...

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