One of Hartford's better cultural attractions is the Mark Twain House and Museum. Now, I'm usually not all that impressed by seeing a dead rich person's old house. Even if that old house belonged to America's best author, I still don't really care, so I never went to the Twain House ( Read more... )

The weekend before last, I took Rosemary with me to Harvard to see the Kuumba Singers, a choir dedicated to African-American music and spirituality, for their spring concert as part of the group's 40th anniversary weekend. I used to sing in Kuumba when I was in college, and I was last in town to see them at the 35th anniversary weekend. Didn't mean ( Read more... )

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I rented "Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins" on the Netflix. And it did not disappoint in how much it disappointed me ( Read more... )

So the Republican National Committee elected Michael Steele as presidentIn case you didn't know, Steele is black. A week after Obama is elected, the Republicans have a black guy at top dog. Put this together with young movers and shakers such as Bobby Jindal, who is Indian American, and there are some interesting developments in the GOP ( Read more... )

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There just wasn't enough time. Simply wasn't. Five days of conferencing, and not enough time ( Read more... )

Wildwood continues to change and stay the same ( Read more... )

Um, wow.

Until I find a video, just read thisBut you have to read it all. Each thought flows into the next, and the speech has to be understood in full ( Read more... )

Do you ever get called an Uncle Tom or an Oreo? And, how do you feel about that?Nope. And when it comes to use of such terms, I'm not a fan, because such labels can be used in rather harsh ways. But I do believe that if someone demonstrates views and actions contrary to the concerns, interests, inequities and needs of disproportionately ( Read more... )