It was Super Bowl Sunday, and the game had ended. The roads were messy with post-game pandemonium; slipshod stop & go traffic; drunken football junkies and gamblers, either pissed or thrilled about the outcome. Careless cars accelerated through yellow lights; stop signs were treated as suggestions. A tinted Hummer rumbled over the edge of [...]
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Walking Home from Nowhere
Posted in homeless, homelessness, tagged beer, college, drinking, drunk driving, education, Florida, football, fraternities, fraternity, hip hop, homeless, homelessness, J-City, Miami, military, music, poverty, rap, South Beach, Super Bowl, veterans, war on April 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Phil Donnahue on the Unpatriotic War
Posted in Allen Colmes, Americans, Bill O'Reilly, Body of War, FoxNews, Iraq War, Phil Donahue, Politics, Sean Hannity, USA, patriotism, war, world on April 9, 2008 | 4 Comments »
A few years ago, Phil Donahue changed my thinking.
As a guest on The O’Reilly Factor, he played the patriotism card to argue against the war.
This was a first, for me: antiwar rhetoric with a pro-American slant. Usually nationalism gets invoked to amplify the battle cry, not silence it, and those wishing to incite [...]




