Paying Attention

Herein be random ruminations on politics, history, ideas, spirituality, religion, education, media, life, relationships, culture... and Boston sports when I really want to vent.

"If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention." (ubiquitous)

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has and never will." (Frederick Douglass)

"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." (Susan B. Anthony)

"Clearly the trick in life is to die young as late as possible." (William Sloane Coffin)

January 6, 2012 9:41 pm

HISTORY’S INTERSECTION

Who says City Planners don’t have a sense of humor?

I can tell you: this could only have happened in one of the former Confederate states.  Kudos for embracing the Civil Rights Movement, and in many places, the South is  better racially than the North, but damn… just can’t let go of the “heritage of OUR fathers” — their treason notwithstanding (and leaving aside the question of which “our” they keep talking about).

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