On the Fragility of Our Connections

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There’s a passage in Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible that describes how one of the preacher’s daughters eventually fell for and married an African revolutionary, how she worked hard to support him in Zaire and Angola and other places so far removed from her native Georgia. I have in my mind’s eye, a pretty young [...]

February 28th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Why the sea is boiling hot | One comment

My So-Called V-Day

[Originally published way too long ago]. — I’m single; have been for many years now. I’m bitter; have been for over… well it’s been a long time, to say the least. I should hate Valentine’s Day. In most years, I’m either spending my time hatin’ on it or futilely chasing some high maintenance daddy’s girl [...]

February 14th, 2011 | Tags: | Category: Whether pigs have wings | Comments are closed

The Career Prospects of a (White) One-Legged Busboy

I was thinking about the NFL’s Rooney Rule, which requires teams with a head coaching vacancy to interview at least one ‘minority’ candidate during its hiring process. Many have decried the rule as a case of the dreaded (and idiotic) “reverse-racism” and the spirit of the rule has been violated many times by well-meaning organizations [...]

February 8th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Whether pigs have wings | Leave a comment