RIP, Phyllis Schafly

Phyllis Schlafly, who lead a decades-long successful charge against the Equal Rights Amendment, has died. In her long career as a conservative, she helped propel Barry Goldwater into a candidacy for President,. She became a lawyer while she urged other women to be housewives. Here’s some of her more recent work. She was 92. Her work lives on, …

Do that one thing

You’re hurt. You’re hurt because you’re black/brown and yet another black/brown man/woman has been shot and killed by the police. You’re hurt. You’re hurt because you’re white and yet another black/brown man/woman has been shot and killed by the police and YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO. And then the news breaks that there are …

RIP Prince

Dang it, I liked his music. He seemed to float about two feet above the rest of us (musically and creatively) and now? He’s gone.

Every woman has met a man like Donald Trump

This Mashable article sent me down memory lane, to a newspaper internship I had 100 years ago at the now-defunct Baltimore Evening Sun. I was young, fresh-faced, and thrilled to enter the hallowed halls (think “smoke-stained” and “stale-smelling”) of that paper, which shared a newsroom with the better-known (and still alive) Baltimore Sun. The newsroom had an invisible …

Open Carry guy kills woman who filed sexual harassment complaints against him

What war on women, you ask? In Iowa, a mall cop who is a big fan of open carry, shot (three times, in the back, with a Glock) and killed a young woman who’d earlier filed sexual harassment complaints against him. These stories have a sad sameness to them. I mean no disrespect. Every death …

Prayers to UNC

While the motive for their murders is being parsed, three Muslim students at University of North Carolina are being mourned by their family, including a friend of mine, nearby Duke University director of Muslim affairs Imam Abdullah Antepli. He posted this on Facebook, from the brother of one of the slained students: As Abdullah says: …