For the past four months, I have been the drummer of a recently-formed jazz trio. We call ourselves The ViolinCellulites (or Cellulites for short) because the leader plays — you guessed it — the cello. Our aim is to breathe new life into those old jazz standards.
We rehearse twice a week as my black Lab guide dog Heath sleeps in a corner, occasionally getting up to sniff for crumbs, poke the cellist’s bow with his nose, or weave between…..
In late January, 1973, the United States Supreme Court legalized abortion through the infamous Roe v. Wade decision, resulting in endless acrimony that has settled into predictable channels.
Once Roe is overturned, each state will be able to decide how they want to address abortion. Some will make it illegal; some will mandate varying degrees of restrictions; and a few will maintain the status quo.
According to friends who attended college in the 1950s and 1960s, wealthy women wanting abortions…..
President Trump’s director of the Office of Management and Budget recently ordered all federal agencies to end sensitivity trainings that cover topics related to white privilege and critical race theory, arguing that these concepts are propaganda that divide. He later tweeted that critical race theory “was a sickness that cannot be allowed to continue.”
While this is another example of President Trump trying to persuade through bullying, most people view mandatory sensitivity training as punishment. Even the term “sensitivity” causes…..
In the Harry Potter series, Vernon Dursley, Harry Potter’s abusive uncle, was the director of Grunnings, an organization that manufactured and sold drills.
We don’t learn much about Vernon’s managerial style. In the first book of the series, J.K. Rowling wrote that he shouted at people and made many important telephone calls. At the beginning of the series’ second book, she recounted how Mr. Dursley coached his wife and son about how to flatter a business client while bullying his…..