Tag: riots
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Baltimore: Really, Who Didn’t See This Coming?
I feel bad for Baltimore, just as I felt bad for Ferguson–because of the innocents who get caught up in the mayhem, because of setbacks the violence and thievery of a few selfish punks who inevitably appear to take advantage of the frustration, grief, and despair which always lay behind these incidents. I feel bad…
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D.A.H.O.F. Enshrines Kevin Sorbo
Hercules was half god. Kevin Sorbo, the actor who famously played him for years on syndicated television, is not half god–he’s half mortal. The rest is all dumb ass, and in recognition for this he is the latest candidate to earn a place in the storied Dumb Ass Hall of Fame. A vocal self-proclaimed conservative,…
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June 5, 1989 Tian An Men
In 1989 I was a college student, largely self-absorbed and still working on figuring out how the world fit together, and disengaged from the idea that I fit in that picture as well. There was no internet. I didn’t have a newspaper subscription, and I watched very little television. So it was that the Tiananmen…
Old Road Apples 