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July 31, 2009
Wow...now THIS is what I call "acting stupidly."
Just when Thursday´s White House "beer summit" promised to put all this mess about the white cop and the black professor behind us, here comes Boston Police officer Justin Barrett.
It seems that Officer (or maybe former officer by the time you s...
July 26, 2009
Get used to it sports fans…this, is America.
For the better part of a week, we have wrung our intellectual hands over the arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates. ´Skip´, as he is casually called, got nabbed by the cops after mouthing off to Police Sgt. James Crowley. The office...
July 20, 2009
I was barely into the first chapter of "Journalism 2.0; A digital literacy guide for the information age", when the news hit that Walter Cronkite had died.
I swore I felt the earth shift…but considering how things have changed in the news business, the timing was appropriate.
It is clear that...
July 14, 2009
She´s at it again…
LaToya Jackson, the oddly compelling older sister of the late (whoa…that´s gonna take some time to get used to) Michael Jackson now says that her brother was murdered. In a recent interview with the UK tabloid, "The Daily Mail", the 53-year old former Playboy magazine cover gir...
July 13, 2009
I was just wondering…
What´s with The Valley Swim Club and their callous refusal to allow mixed race children from the Creative Steps program to swim at their pool ´cause they would, "…change the completion and atmosphere of the club."
It this 2009, or 1809???
The man responsible for that h...