Brüno, the outrageous character so mincingly and convincingly portrayed by Sacha Baron Cohen, has aroused my curiosity and definitely made me laugh out loud.  I haven’t seen the movie yet, so far just some trailers and interviews of Brüno, but it’s ok to po/… Read full post »

I did a lot of reading on OS this weekend in the masculine/feminine debates, and lots was stirred up by the time I got to the "offensive word" issue hatched in Emma Peel's post. 

I started to comment on Bill Beck's post and it ended up being too long… Read full post »

I want to talk about something heard many times since the possibility and then the actuality of an African-American becoming the President of the United States of America.  “What a great country this is, only in this great country could such a thing happen, it shows what a singularly speci… Read full post »

Today was Martin Luther King Day.

In his “Beyond Vietnam” speech, which he delivered at New York’s Riverside Church on April 4, 1967, a year to the  day before he was assassinated, Dr. King called the United States “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world… Read full post »