A Blog about Social Justice and Current Events

F-5 Tornadoes ripped through North Alabama in April, leaving a path of shock and awful.  Communities like Hackleburg, Phil Campbell, Athens, Tuscaloosa and others now have a new low point measure–its called Ground Zero. For those of us at or near Ground Zero, we won’t forget. We won’t forget the sights–trees debarked, slabs de-housed, lives destroyed. We won’t forget the smells–the aroma of fresh [...]

“One thing I cannot stand, and that’s lazy people. I just have no patience for laziness.” Yep. Those are pretty much her words. Words carefully chosen, designed to label, crafted to distinguish “her” from anyone, uh…, well, lazy. The person speaking those words didn’t invent the word, nor was  she the first to use, or misuse [...]

          A recent TV ad asks: “What’s in your wallet.” Perhaps a more revealing question: “What’s in your budget?” Oh, you think you don’t have a budget? Sure you do. Maybe not on paper, but everyone has a budget. A check register, a credit card statement, and receipts stuffed in envelopes are all pieces of [...]

      I think we should re-name Christmas. How about something more fitting for the season? Check out these possibilities: Dollar-mas, Gift-mas, Mall-mas. Sadness. It is of course, much ado about dollars, gifts, and malls–and many people are depressed. How about Christ-less. Christ-less retains the sound flow of Christmas and sets the record straight. 
     Not that the record [...]

     Today was a blah day for me. No great injustice, maybe a few small ones.  Called off work at 8:30 AM. Took my six year old son to the doctor at 9:30 AM. At 10:00 A.M. I learned that the NSAID meds I was taking could actually be destroying my liver (now there may [...]

      Even now, thoughts gather and prayers ascend for victims in yesterday’s Fort Hood, Texas shooting. What a tragic and senseless act of cold measured violence. Lives have been forever altered–children made fatherless, wives made widows, and friends forever lost to a battle waged not on some foreign soil but on the seemingly secure confines [...]

     $208,000,000 can buy a lot, including a World Series championship. Of course I am biased. I just moved from Philly. I wanted the Phillies to repeat as World Series champs. Never really cozyed up to the Yankees anyway. They are just too dang good–the kind of team you love to loathe. 
   But, facts are [...]

     Got porn? Oh, you hate porn? Really? You hate ”pornography” but love the Sport’s Illustrated Swim Suit Edition. You hate Playboys but love cheerleaders for the Dallas Cowboys.   There is a line between Playboy and the Sport’s Illustrated Swimsuit Edition. But if you have opened the pages of a SI swimsuit edition (which I did for research for this blog) [...]

            Once weekly I go into a local school and mentor a child. Actually, this child and I do lunch together in a program called “Lunch Buddies.” All it cost me is a little time, a smidgen of gas, and $2 for lunch. I picked Friday of last week to go. It was a very busy [...]

     In 1945 the United States unleashed an atomic apocalypse on two Japanese cities. Aerial views  before and after the attacks are startling–revealing two cities completely leveled. The immediate death count on the ground for both cities combined approached 140,00. Men, women, and children were walking around dazed and confused, with massive body burns. Many searched [...]