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An Open Letter Response to Millionaire LaPierre
Mr. LaPierre, On June 24, 2014, you took to The Daily Caller to pen an article critical of former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg’s gun violence prevention efforts. As someone previously...
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Meanwhile in Texas
In light of the horrific massacre of a family in Spring, Texas yesterday, I thought it would be good to gauge the response of our elected officials. Since there was nothing but the sound of chirping...
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My Inspiration
Christopher Hitchens wrote, “To the dumb question “Why me?” the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: why not?” This little blog started as a way for me to scream into deaf space when news...
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Tick, Tock, Glock
According to the Brady Campaign, on average, for the five most recently available years for which statistics are available, every day in America there are: 291 people in America are shot (including 52...
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Today’s Assignment
Your assignment today is to watch two videos and then think. The first video is of a group of people openly carrying their long guns in order to “support the second amendment.” Listen to their words....
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James Brady
James Brady died today. For those too young to remember, Mr. Brady was President Reagan’s White House Press Secretary. On Monday, March 30, 1981, only 69 days into his presidency, a disturbed young man...
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Supernova
Physics has a concept called the law of conservation of energy, which states that the total amount of energy in a closed system is neither gained nor lost over time, but rather is only transformed from...
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Tipping Point of Possessive Pronouns
I read Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point when it was first published in 2000. At the time, my children were 6. This past weekend, I attended a gallery opening for my daughter whose work from her...
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Guardian Angel
How better to share my grief about the loss of a friend than through a story? After all, isn’t that, ultimately, how we remember those we love who leave us? Blaine Toshner died this week. He was...
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Inhuman
Publilius Syrus in the first century B.C. wrote “when Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.” Plutarch reinterpreted this as “I see the cure is not worth the pain.” Somewhere over the past two...
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Susan Sontag, in Illness as Metaphor suggests that we refrain from anthropomorphizing cancer as tuberculosis was in the 19th century. It is simply a disease, linked neither to melancholy nor passion....
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Aaron’s Wishes for 2015
December 18, 2014 Hello. My name is Aaron. I am six years old. I am a second grade student in Miss Vasquez’s second grade class at John F. Kennedy Elementary School. Our class has been cutting out...
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many wearing rapiers are afraid of goose-quills
A gun is not a religion. It is not a family member. It cannot vote. It is made, by humans, for humans, to kill (sometimes humans). Yesterday, cloaked in the delusion that their special deity had his...
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Doubt and About
I seem to be suffering from a philosophical breach between the correlation of the concepts of equality, fairness, and justice. Equality, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is “The state of...
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I Hate Cancer
I am so sick of cancer. I have seen it eat away, like rust or termites, healthy individual’s lives, and the lives and futures of their families and friends. Whether it happens slowly over a long period...
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Intolerant
At fifty years of age, having now buried my father and father-in-law due to lung cancer, and caring every day for my wife as she suffers the effects of breast cancer, and having just learned of the...
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Religious Freedumb
Having been born in Rhode Island, perhaps I am biased against those whom I about to write. Rhode Island was founded as a colony in 1636, as Providence Plantations, by Roger Williams, a theologian,...
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Comfort for Aurora
“In the hope that it may be no intrusion upon the sacredness of your sorrow, I have ventured to address you this tribute to the memory of my young friend, and your brave and early fallen child.”...
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Lisa’s Birthday
at Versailles Birthdays are often thought of negatively, an ugly reminder that Father Time is pushing you toward old age. But birthdays are not guaranteed and should, therefore, be celebrated. Old age...
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Cancer, be not proud
I can neither understand, nor accept that it is divine will that a disease was designed to kill its host and itself in the process, other than to surmise that if it is God’s will, he/she/it is neither...
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