Category Archives: Civil Liberty

Black Face, White Face

4/4/2013 – 7:53 am

I didn’t understand what was happening during the Louisville-Duke NCAA tournament game Sunday evening.  Suddenly, all the Louisville players were lying on the court, curled in the fetal position.  The announcers seemed equally confused. Then it became clear: Louisville guard Kevin Ware had gone down in front of his team’s bench, his leg unnaturally twisted.  […]

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Entertaining, Unaware

3/28/2013 – 4:17 pm

I read the Bible.  This seems to irritate everyone. My atheist friends don’t get it; many of them fail to appreciate the book at any level.  That’s a pity, because even if the Bible is just a collection of stories, its echoes are heard throughout western culture.  (Is that hegemonic?  Yep, but that’s the culture […]

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After the Flood

3/21/2013 – 9:59 am

Adrienne and I are watching the first season of Tremé on disc.  I resisted this for three years, despite the praise the show – and the way it was made  – received from New Orleans friends. If you haven’t seen it, the HBO series opens three months after Hurricane Katrina and takes place in an […]

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The Irish Letter

3/14/2013 – 12:09 pm

Before the Internet, the passing along of office jokes had to be accomplished with typewriters and copiers.  I remember a few of these coming into my house when I was a child.  (Copiers were then new technology, but Rochester was the home of Xerox). One that stuck in my head was the prototypical “letter from […]

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Me… We

2/14/2013 – 7:06 pm

I’m a me person.  It sounds egotistic; I don’t mean it that way (although an honest person could argue it’s true).  What I mean is the story of my life is mine alone. It’s true, like Alfred Tennyson’s Ulysses, I am a part of all that I have met.  I have, like most of Americans […]

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A Piece of My Mine

1/31/2013 – 8:25 pm

A colleague, an attorney, began her career in the Monroe County, New York Public Defender’s Office.  I’m from Monroe County.  I told her the name of my town. “Hmm,” she said. “We didn’t work by town, we worked by zip.  What was your zip?” “One four six one seven,” I said. “Oh yeah, I know […]

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Where the Mental Health Thing Comes In

1/10/2013 – 5:35 pm

James Yeager, the CEO of Tactical Response, a Tennessee company that specializes in firearms training, posted – and then unposted – a 32-second video of himself swearing into the camera (swearing in both the sense of cursing and making a promise) that if guns are regulated, he will start killing people. I hardly know where […]

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