being not doing

A couple of weeks ago, we went to a pre-release screening of Food, Inc., downtown at the E Street Theater. We’d never been; it’s nice and worth the trip downtown to be able to see limited run films in a contemporary setting. Old theaters have a lot of charm, however there’s a lot to be [...]

“We’re going to strengthen our critical thinking and our writing skills. These can be revolutionary tools if we make them so.”Ronald Takaki1939—2009. You’ll be missed, Dr. Takaki. By all of us who embraced your approach to understanding the country in which we live and honoring its rich history, and who pushed ourselves and our students [...]

The past few weeks have been exciting ones for gender parity in civil marriage, and it looks like there’s more to come. Iowa and Vermont have joined Massachusetts and Connecticut in ending the use of gender as a qualifier for marriage eligibility, and the legislatures of New Hampshire and Maine have passed their own bills [...]

It’s probably true that every small town has its dramas, but the ones in University Park seem to always fall out along lines of race and class. This shouldn’t surprise me, given that I live in a town that was incorporated with racial covenants in a county that was and is predominantly black. Language is [...]

Either J-hole Jindal or Fox News — or both, most likely — need a refresher on what happens after the President signs pieces of paper that are submitted to him by Congress. Because no one is ‘taking on the spending bill’ anymore, but one big bobble-headed blatherer in particular is talking smack about blocking access [...]