Month: December 2011

Poem for World AIDS Day

Today is World AIDS Day. The day comes with a mixed message; encouraging reductions in the number of deaths and new infections from the HIV virus, while funding for the efforts are reduced in a difficult world economy. You will...

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This is What Theocracy Will Look Like

I have been married to a wonderful woman whose parents came over to the United States from Japan in the mid-1950’s. I met her in law school, we fell in love (my story) or “he just wouldn’t go away” (her...

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America, Beacon of Freedom and Liberty

As seen by the German magazine Der Spiegel (translation courtesy Harper Magazine’s Scott Horton; bold emphasis mine): “Africa is a country. The Taliban rule in Libya. Muslims are terrorists. Immigrants are mostly...

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