Holding My Breath

by | Sep 23, 2011 | The Public Humanist

As I write this morning, wheels are turning in Brockton on a project that began for me almost five years ago. Ten-by-twelve-foot vinyl banners are being printed and rigged for hanging on the faces of downtown buildings; the buildings’ landlords are getting ready...

Have a daughter?

by | Sep 12, 2011 | Ten Gallon Liberal

Then you’ll no doubt have an opinion about the webkerfuffle that arrived yesterday in which people took great exception to a T-shirt for young girls, from JC Penney, emblazoned: “I’m too pretty to do homework, so my brother has to do it for...

9/11, Devolution

by | Sep 14, 2011 | Ten Gallon Liberal

I didn’t want to tune in to the long-winded televised reminders of the trauma of 9/11. The wake of that terrible event saw even the (ridiculously) maligned French declaring “We’re all Americans now,” a remarkable expression of the zeitgeist...