My Ongoing Contact Management Challenges
If you’re like me, you’ve got friends all over the electronic landscape: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google, you name it. Which means all of those are potentially also “contacts.” And, of course,...
View ArticleMatt Bevin Asks the State To “Accommodate” Discrimination
I really don’t get what is so hard to understand: the First Amendment gives you the right to practice your own religion, but not to harm or discriminate against others. As I pointed out in this earlier...
View ArticleElections, Government, Democracy — It’s All for Sale
(Warning — this is a depressed rant. If you are allergic to rants, or depression, you should probably read something else.) So here’s the latest. The Club for Growth, a well-known right-wing PAC,...
View ArticleHow to Fight for Change Without Being Mean
I’ve been thinking about this question a lot lately, as I do more and more writing on this page, as I try to do more and more advocacy, AND as we prepare to launch a progressive community site for the...
View ArticleWhy I Cannot Run for Office Again
Last year (2014), I took time off from writing to run for local office — specifically, Metro Council. It was a learning experience, a time-consuming experience, a demanding experience … but a great...
View ArticleFuzzy Journalism at WFPL re Conway
So I’m scanning Facebook today and came across the same post many of you saw: Both Major Candidates For Governor Want To Drug Test Welfare Recipients It was from Ryland Barton at WFPL, and was a link...
View ArticleThe Four Questions for Choosing Our Democratic Nominee
(cross-posted from Daily Kos) Here we are, in the middle of the hottest summer on record, watching the 2016 primaries get just as hot, with pies flying so fast and furious that the Flag Guy is having...
View ArticleStraight Talk on “Anchor Babies”
Posting this verbatim from my friend, Rev. Ryan Eller, who is the Executive Director of Define American. He posted this as a long comment on Facebook; I then asked if I could repost it, and he said...
View ArticleWhy Holly Warlick Should Get Another Year
Two issues facing the Lady Vols, and why Holly Warlick The post Why Holly Warlick Should Get Another Year appeared first on brucemaples dot com.
View ArticleTen Hallmarks of American Democracy To Protect
If these foundations of American Democracy are lost, we have lost a key part of our national character, and a key freedom that we cannot take for granted. Continue reading → The post Ten Hallmarks of...
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