One of my students here in Korea, a 50-something executive at a Samsung affiliate, recently articulated something that has been in my mind for a long while. We were discussing a shooting incident in the U.S. that I had read about on the internet. I don’t recall if it was a school shooting or one […]
It’s amazing what Americans will get riled up over and what they won’t. It took four years before a massive demonstration could be organized in the capitol to protest the Iraq war, but it didn’t take much at all to get 10,000 people together to protest the Jena 6 situation.
The teenagers, who have come to […]
It took long enough, but thousands of real patriots took to the streets of the United States capitol in order to let our government know that enough is enough. If I were back in Atlanta rather than halfway around the world, I would definitely have made the trek north to participate. I feel bummed that […]
The next time you hear one of the brainless, conservative zombies who live off of Fox News accuse someone opposed to the war of not supporting the troops, do us all a favor and give the idiot a good crack across the jaw. No matter how many times the Decider puts on a chipper show […]
There are times in history to which we of the present can look and clearly see a turning point, a major event or series of events that alter the course of the world for the worse. If only someone had done this, or if more people had done that, it could have been avoided. Through […]