by Valley Locavore | Nov 3, 2008 | Valley Locavore
Got Elinor Lipman's signature on the book, Then She Found Me this weekend. Things were going fine at the writers conference where she was presenting at a panel discussion. "Make your reader fall in love on the first page," she said with the cute glasses...
by Bob Meagher | Nov 3, 2008 | The Public Humanist
Here, for the first time in my brief career as a Public Humanist blogger, I am writing to an assigned topic–"Athenian Democracy"–a topic I accepted during the summer because I was reasonably confident it would provoke thought (in me, for a...
by James Heflin | Nov 3, 2008 | Ten Gallon Liberal
A Halloween triple-header:1) Florida GOP county chair spells out the terrifying threat–all these black people, they just keep voting! And college students! Help! Don't they know Obama is a closet Stalin? He'll take away their freedom of speech! [Does he...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Nov 3, 2008 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
One more week. One more week. I mentioned this in my last post, but here, above, is the speech by the AFL-CIO's Richard Trumka. I post it today because I think that racisim – overt, unspoken, latent, even unconscious – is now the only thing that could...