Bill O’Reilly, that meatloaf-faced patron nudnik of nonstop yelling, wants us to know that the slaves who built the White House were actually paid, well-fed, and humanely housed. Do we honestly need to do this in 2016? It seems that we need to do this in 2016. I would like you to posit two slave […]
Originally published on Facebook 22 July 2014. Novelist Bel Kaufman has died. She was 103. She wrote UP THE DOWN STAIRCASE, which, for those of you who haven’t read it, was a powerful tragicomedy about a teacher’s first year in an inner-city school; better than the movie, in that it was a trendsetter in style […]
Originally published on Facebook July 22 2013, in response to Republican anger President Obama’s comments on the killing of Trayvon Martin. Still broadly applicable. Answering rising tensions in the wake of a Florida Court case involving discrimination against disabled individuals, President Franklin Roosevelt made a deeply emotional speech about his personal experiences with his disability. […]