When I think about his influence now, I wonder how my life might have been different had I never known him; had there been a traditional, straitlaced someone in his place; someone who did not love partially formed human beings or who saw the teaching process as routine or tiresome; autocr...
there was neither a genocide nor planned crimes against any community. More than 50% of Tamils always lived in the south of Sri Lanka. The only entity that engaged in systematic elimination of Muslims and Sinhalese in the north and east was the LTTE. The LTTE ethnically cleansed the Sinhalese...
Before there was O.J. there were Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, a pair of privileged, rich, successful young men who murdered a 14-year-old boy named Bobby Franks merely for the thrill and to see if they could pull it off. Dubbed the "crime of the century" in media outlets across...
But soon after, the reality that we are not truly united as a prisoner class and any progress we seem to make will eventually be eaten away like acid rain falling on black rocks forces a short sigh in my heart and I know there is still work to do. Incarcerated Tears, Book of Poems ...
t noticed when I first saw the sanctuary, although now seeing it, and due to its showing the signs of having been there for years, with a hill of spent candle wax on the floor, was a golden candle stand, with six spent candles, and one candle which was still burning ever so ...
15 years ago in New Zealand we had theLiam Williams-Holloway case, where the parents of a 3-year-old with neuroblastoma did not want him to undergo the rigours of chemotherapy and the possibility of survival, preferring Quantum Vibrational Therapy from a Rife Machine. There was a messy cour...
So manipulators repeat lies and sloganeer endlessly to condition their subjects to repress unauthorized speech and thought: “The techniques of propaganda and salesmanship have been refined and systematized; there is scarcely any hiding place from the constant visual and verbal assault on the mind. ...
Nevertheless, there it was and worth a performance, though it certainly lacked the substance of any of the three preceding pieces. But that was all in the first half! Nowadays we are lucky to get all that in an entire concert. During the interval Brian and I were speculating about the ...
“Under President Trump, the American dream was alive and well. Under President Trump there was hope and we need that now more than ever,” he continued, calling the former president “the braveheart of our time.” Robinson, the Trump-backed Republican nominee for governor, has been kn...
“Given today, and everything that has occurred, if the opportunity were there [for a floor fight] we wouldn’t take it at this point,” Perkins told POLITICO. “Don’t take our silence as being indifferent to what took place, it’s just timing.” Still, Perkins did not ex...