So Fox News, so shock jocks, you who have spewed your venom on a gullible unsuspecting society, are you happy now?  No matter how you spin it the events of last weekend that saw a nine year old girl gunned down can be laid directly at your doorstep.  Language has consequences.  This is not the [...]

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The G20 fiddled as London burned with passion.  People from all over descended on the city.  Once more unto the breach Shakespeare said and so they came.  CNN, that bastion of unbiased and insightful news, giggled at the foolish simpletons who clashed with police commenting that the protests would have no effect except perhaps on [...]

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I have a confession to make, actually a couple.  A few years back the department of which I am a member was embroiled in a fervent effort to brand ourselves.  Several names for the school were bandied about, most focused on the word liberal.  In the end the selection was the School of Liberal Studies.  [...]

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This will be remembered as the year of the big story.  The Democratic primary fight pitting the first female candidate with a chance of being nominated by a major party against the first Black candidate; leading, as expected, to one of them winning the White House.  The presidential election culminated in the first Black man [...]

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