Nowhere near the end

It has been barely twenty-four hours since Barack Obama secured the Democratic Party nomination for president. There has been no shortage of people declaring this a historic moment in the course of our nation. You will get no argument from me on that notion. Only a handful of events in the social development on this [...]

Book Recommendation: The Secret Life of Bees

Book: The Secret Life of Bees
Author: Sue Monk Kidd
Recently, while randomly browsing in Borders, I found this great book. I would have liked to think a discovered a hidden gem because I had previously not heard of the author, but as it turns out, the book was a best seller so apparently more than [...]

Obama and the white working class

The conventional wisdom of this political season seems to suggest that even as Barack Obama is on the verge of officially securing the Democratic nomination, he has one major problem; he cannot win over white working class voters. But the most recent results from Oregon and Kentucky (and earlier results from places like Wisconsin) [...]

Foolish Curiosity

I never made a post about this story, but it is likely that most people who read this blog received the link from me at some point. For those of you who did not, here is a quick summary.
There is a guy in Marietta, GA (near Atlanta), who decided it was a good a idea [...]

Overwhelming indeed

So last night Hillary Clinton called her West Virginia primary win “overwhelming.”  I started reading quotes by West Virginians and I was indeed “overwhelmed,” but I don’t think HRC and I were using the word in the same way.  Here are the first couple quotes I found.  Then I had to stop because it was [...]