I went to the Post Office yesterday (an anecdote on the process)

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Thursday January 12, 2006 · 7:21 AM PST

2006/01/12 · 07:21

A book of stamps leads to a twenty minute lesson about `us' and `them'. Read More

Social Inequality and the French Riots

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Wednesday November 09, 2005 · 4:07 PM PST

2005/11/09 · 16:07

It’s almost a given, like waiting for another shoe to drop. I suppose some out there are just wired this way, ready for the knee jerk reaction, ready to blame a problem they don’t understand on skin color, religion, clothing, life preferences, anything out there that they might not understand, and understand little enough to use as a method to put someone down.

“So, there have been riots in France going on for nearly two weeks now? Who is rioting? The lower class, downtrodden, which includes many Muslim immigrants? Muslim you say? France you say? Well that’s what France gets for not joining us in the War on Terror! Look what those evil-doers are doing to that country! Thank god we are taking the fight to them over there instead of them coming here!” Read More

The R Word

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Monday October 10, 2005 · 4:04 PM PDT

2005/10/10 · 16:04

It's a skeleton in the collective American closet that is not often dealt with. Every now and then it comes to light, maybe with a little outrage, maybe with a little desire to change, and in the end a whole lot of nothing gets done - just enough to calm tensions until a later date. I'm talking about the "R" word. I'm talking about racism. The problem exists in this country (and others) on such a grand scale I can't even begin to hope to get it all down in one shot. I can talk about what I do know about, though - and that's home. Read More

Seriously, why?

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Tuesday September 06, 2005 · 10:29 AM PDT

2005/09/06 · 10:29

Intro: I've been blogging for a bit (longer than that page would lead you to believe, actually) and I enjoy to write. With that in mind, I also like people to read what I write, so I throw myself to the DKos masses. Time to pop that Kos cherry, heh.

This is a cross-post of what I just finished writing. Hopefully it won't get lost in the avalanche of Katrina-related topics but really, try as I might to focus on something else, I just can't right now. So with that said, time to get into my favorite most-ignored question in politics (it seems): "Why?" Read More

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