I sang “Taste and see that the Lord is good.” Then I took communion, and then I went to breakfast and lied like a rug*. Across coffee and bowls of Rice Krispies, a nun with white hair and an unabashed face asked, “Are you Catholic?” “Yes,” I lied. “Oh,” she said. My life flashed before my […]
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Read More ConstitutionalToday you announced that you are ready to fix American education. I’m happy for you. What I find confusing is your view of the problem, and the goal of public education. Then there’s your solutions, which, at least in my neck of the woods, seemed designed to create options that most people can’t or won’t […]
Read More Dear Mr. Romney, I’m So Glad You AskedWhy do city kids fight all the time, especially at graduation? First of all, some of them don’t have much to lose. If you have no hope of going to college (school district unaccredited, for example), and unemployment has hit your community the hardest of any, during terrible times (black unemployment has been double that of […]
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