On July 26, 2015, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) celebrated its 25th anniversary with muted coverage in the mainstream and alternative media; indeed, perusing my Twitter feed, AlterNet.org, and Townhall.com during the past three days yielded no articles on the topic. (Hey, thought-shaping dudes: many of us disabled people read your stuff. Give us your coverage, your opinions, your tweets; our responses might surprise you.)
My first positive ADA-CONNECTED experience took place in the mid-1990s. While running a strategic…..
“And I ran, I ran so far away. … I ran both night and day. … I couldn’t get away.”
From what am I trying to escape? That dreadful 1980s A Flock of Seagulls song whose chorus I summarized above, and a current flock of seagulls that is squawking against the Iran nuclear arms treaty without suggesting other solutions to improve matters in Iran and the Middle East.
“Contrary to what the president claimed,” wrote seagull D.W. Wilber in a…..
My wife, Lisa, is a devout Deadhead, having attended 30 Grateful Dead concerts during a ten-year period. My contact with the Dead, however, was primarily based on the songs that album-oriented radio stations played. While I found these songs sort of interesting, the whiny, nasal, slightly out-of-tune vocals that almost never blended well was a definite turn-off.
About three months ago, Lisa heard about the Dead’s final three concerts in Chicago. She felt a calling to go; I did not.
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Like most of us, I was humbled when a parade of family members of those that Dylann Roof murdered during the massacre at Emanuel AME Church forgave him during Mr. Roof’s arraignment.
“You took something very precious from me, but I forgive you,” said Nadine Collier, in between sobs. “It hurts me. You hurt a lot of people, but may God forgive you.”
“If I had experienced something similar, I think I would have been too emotionally numb to even…..