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Why we should care about income inequality
I don’t want to get into the argument of the 1% versus the 99% because I think the issue, unaddressed, will hurt 100% of us. The issue is income inequality in the United States, and the good news is...
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King scolds super rich for not supporting the society that helped them become...
Stephen King rebukes the rich of America for whining like babies about paying their share to keep this country running? Yes, that is an interesting idea…it would be even better if he was all...
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“The relevant life”
It was Friday afternoon when I saw the headline and giggled a little to myself (no need to let everyone else in on what I was doing). It struck me as funny that a commencement speaker told a group of...
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“I have a dream”
Forty-nine years ago today, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., took the podium at the Lincoln Memorial and delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom; it is still...
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“American Taliban”
From time to time I find something I think is worth recommending that other people check out; I found such a thing last week. This is about politics; this is about the people I’ve accused of hijacking...
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The mind of the blogger, revealed
I really couldn’t think of anything, either…thanks, Calvin and Hobbes and GoComics.com.
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Calvin’s dad explains it all
Only a few more shopping days left…thank God. Thanks, Calvin and Hobbes and GoComics.com.
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Recommended reading: an inside story of the loss of space shuttle Columbia
This week, January 16, is the 10th anniversary of the last launch of space shuttle Columbia. If you’re interested in knowing what happened at NASA leading up to that launch and what happened in...
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Guns spelled backwards is snug, and other thoughts on guns
I’ve been thinking about guns and gun control and the Second Amendment since the school shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, but today I found a guy who’s done a much better job of it than me. I’m not a...
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This is a no-brainer…so it’s perfect for this blog
My Houston Astros kicked off their American League existence Sunday night with a big exciting win over the Texas Rangers, and Monday I thought I should write something nice for the blog about the...
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Memorial Day means…
The point of the day is to remember those who gave their lives in the defense of our country…and I don’t remember ever being as touched on this subject as I was reading this story about the way the...
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The next time someone says space travel isn’t dangerous…
…suggest that they read this: Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano’s first person account of his most recent spacewalk, during which he nearly drowned inside his helmet. …just as I’m thinking about how to...
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Just because there’s been another mass shooting is no reason to think that...
Reaction to this morning’s shootings at the Washington Navy Yard are running pretty much as you expect them to: most people are concerned and frightened and interested to know more details, and the...
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Watch Cosmos, be less dumb
I wouldn’t be much of a television professional if I didn’t watch a lot of TV, have an opinion on all of it, and insist on sharing that opinion even when you don’t ask. But I do; I do; and even though...
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The “Weird Al” for lovers of language
There is so much to like here: the lyric, the visual imagination, the beat…the fact that you don’t actually see “Weird Al” Yankovic during the performance (not if you blink). Make all your illiterate...
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Falkenberg snaps the shutout and changes the law
The Houston Chronicle is heckled within these walls as “Houston’s Leading Information Source” for two sarcastic reasons: that’s what it proclaimed itself to be for many years in a local advertising—er,...
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It’s still too early for the 2016 campaign, but…
The first vote that counts in the 2016 presidential election is still four months away, so I remain committed to the belief that it is still too soon to be caring about this. Of course, I’m vastly...
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Guns spelled backwards is snug, and other thoughts on guns
I’ve been thinking about guns and gun control and the Second Amendment since the school shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, but today I found a guy who’s done a much better job of it than me. I’m not a...
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Memorial Day means…
The point of the day is to remember those who gave their lives in the defense of our country…and I don’t remember ever being as touched on this subject as I was reading this story about the way the...
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Falkenberg snaps the shutout and changes the law
The Houston Chronicle is heckled within these walls as “Houston’s Leading Information Source” for two sarcastic reasons: that’s what it proclaimed itself to be for many years in a local advertising—er,...
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