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Posted by on Dec 3, 2015 in Blog, Politics | 7 comments

“Thoughts and Prayers” Have Become Beneath Our Contempt

 

 

Yesterday, there was another mass shooting in America.

That was the 355th murderous tirade this year, a rate of more than one mass shooting per day.  More than 600 innocents have been killed by guns, and 1,620 seriously injured.  That’s in addition to the tens of thousands of gun accidents, domestic altercations, and countless other tragedies which have involved the misuse of firearms.

Is this “America’s exceptionalism?”

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Posted by on Nov 28, 2015 in Blog, Movie Reviews | 2 comments

Standing Tall in the Darkness (Movie Review: “Spotlight”)

 

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Most mornings between 1993 and 2000, I walked uptown from the Washington metro to my workplace on Massachusetts Avenue, along what’s fashionably referred to as “Embassy Row.”

A few blocks from DuPont Circle, a lonely-looking man used to stand outside on the sidewalk and silently protest.  Rain, shine, or snow, he came every morning.  He usually held a sign, sometimes two — one in each hand.  Occasionally, he handed out flyers on which something was printed and written, although few if any people on the sidewalk stopped long enough to take one.  I passed him by frequently.  I never took one.

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