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Monthly Archives: May 2011
A Response
For those who are not reading the comments, whether at the blog site, or through the “Comments RSS,” I was asked last week, in response to my last posting, what the difference was between “bearing witness” and “simply observing something.” It’s … Continue reading
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Oxygen
I am trying to clean off my desk; I mean truly clean off my desk. So I decided to take today and not get distracted and really make that happen. But then while eating breakfast, I read an Op-Ed article … Continue reading
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After All These Years…..
I ended last week, as many people my age spend far too much time doing, going to a wake and funeral. My Uncle Mike was only seven years older than me and because of that we never thought of him … Continue reading
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There, But For….
Some time ago, a prisoner I met went to some effort to explain to me that the media stories about male prisoners being raped were greatly exaggerated and things had changed in prisons very much since the days of “Fortune … Continue reading
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An “important and compelling book”
Nicholas Kristof, a columnist for the NY Times, has written often about the commercial sexual exploitation of children, both domestic and international. I have quoted him for the title of this post. Last Monday, he wrote his latest column on … Continue reading
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The Relevance of Certain Facts
Two weeks from this evening, and the same day of the week this year as back then, will mark exactly forty five years since I last saw my mother. She, with my father, went out that evening to a party. … Continue reading
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