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Again
Our children are dying. 18 school shootings so far this year. (But it must be noted that this number is controversial, and depends on one’s definition of a school shooting. Still, I think we can agree that even one is too many.) We are not even through February. What’s the magic number? How many have…
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Carmesha Rogers — Neglected Hero
Recently there was a lot of media coverage about Carmesha Rogers, who is a true hero. When she heard gun shots, dozens of them, in front of her house, did she stay inside where she would be safe? No. She ran into the line of fire to get some neighborhood kids inside. She rescued these…
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Felony Paintball
This was an article I wrote in November, 2007, which was subsequently published as a back page editorial in a local publication called Folio Weekly. The early morning of Saturday, November 3rd, 2007 started off routinely for my friends Kari and Joe (pseudonyms, per their request). They met in the parking lot, bleary eyed and…