As I sit outside on a refreshingly cool, clear day in Columbia, Missouri, I’m reflecting about the chaotic week in Boston and west Texas. I smile remembering how in the early 1980s I listened to marathon coverage on the radio while living near Boylston Street in an apartment full of cockroaches among a bunch of boisterous college students while working towards my Master’s in music composition at New England Conservatory and Berklee College of Music. I am a lifelong Red…..
Linda Chavez, in an April 12 column entitled “Discrimination Is Not the Issue,” highlights “a provocative new book” written by June O’Neill and Dave O’Neill. According to Ms. Chavez, the authors state that “In 2008, when schooling, work experience, scores on the” Armed Forces Qualification Test, “age, region, hours worked, type of employer,” and work-related decisions were accounted for, blacks, Hispanics, and women earned from 97% to 100% of the wages of similar white males.
“Yeah, right,” I mumbled to…..
Six months after marrying Lisa, we received an e-mail inviting us to take part in a Marriage Encounter weekend. When she suggested we attend, I told her that conservative Christian radio hosts who preach that wives should submit to their husbands regularly promoted the program. She suggested that I express my concerns to those organizing the weekend.
“No,” the organizer told me, “we don’t discuss submission; it’s too controversial.”
So Lisa and I arrived late and out of breath at…..