Tag: Ten

A Story That Struck Home My fellow writer,  Amy Sea , recently wrote a piece that spoke directly to me. In the piece, Amy contemplates the difference in body size perception between Chicago and Malibu. She is perceived as thin in Chicago, but in Malibu, that same body is not th...

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Statistics on democracy and human rights in Europe, Caucasus, Middle East, Latin America, and Central Africa have highlighted major challenges and issues for many years. Despite various efforts by nations and organizations to address these issues, data and news indicate that these efforts have been ...

Then it happened, I’m eighty years old. How did that happen? Please read through my ten things and let me know what resonates with you most. I sat down and began to think about the changes that old age had sprung on me. There are more than these, but you get the idea, don’t you? We...

The end of the year is only two weeks away (and good riddance to it), which makes this the ideal time for my Third Annual “Year in Rants” wrap-up. As in years past, the list of things that set me off in 2023 was long and varied; I am an equal opportunity ranter. Also like in previous yea...

I remember where I was when the mass shooting at Columbine High School happened — the offices of the Daily Tar Heel Newspaper on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. All the staff stood around in shock. We’d seen school violence, we’d s...

Whenever I criticize Israel, Zionists use the identity trick. In the past, I’ve just pointed them to Why Zionists Love Identity Politics: The long history of deflecting criticism by insisting anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism, but sometimes I name a few of the Jews I admire immeasurably....