This is a collection of links about Republican cuts to programs serving people with disabilities, as well as comments from Republican officials/candidates questioning the rationales behind such programs. Resource pages offer collections of links for pieces I am writing, usually without comment. The comment comes in the piece I write later. Please suggest other links…
I write about public engagement and the academy for the Chronicle and here on the blog. Mostly, I have talked about the ways that formal non-academic writing (opinion essays, popular books, other media outreach) and community engagement (undocumented students) function within the core mission of an academic institution and career. There are, though, more radical views….
For Southern Nationalists, slavery was better than modern taxation and the KKK was just a neighborhood watch. From a Guardian piece: Kiscaden, who owns a coal mine in Kentucky, had an equally peculiar interpretation of history. He disputed that Forrest was a a founding member of the Klan, which he said played a positive role…
Yesterday, I wrote about the death of Anthony Hill, a man with bipolar disorder, who, while naked and unarmed, was killed by police in the Atlanta area. Here are three stories on how police should respond to these sorts of situations (I’m guessing there are 500+ related deaths a year nationally, but numbers are hard…
“The [naked] man who appeared mentally ill ran at the officer and ignored demands to stop before the officer shot him twice.” Hill and his parents. Used by permissionof the picture’s owner. Yesterday, in DeKalb, GA, a police officer responded to a call about a naked, unarmed, man at an apartment complex. He was clearly…
CS: I would urge people, especially young women, to check out the local laws in your state for cyber-bullying because I think a lot of times crimes are being committed and people don’t know. So Curt Schilling, baseball hero, conservative activist, and failed video-game designer, discovered internet misogyny recently when awful sexual comments were directed…
I’m in two Irish Rock bands: The Tooles and Mulligan Stew. We’ve entered the busy season and I thought I’d share my upcoming shows in case you’re in Chicago (or near Oshkosh/Appleton in Wisconsin) and looking for music. Here’s where you can find my shows: Sunday 3/8 7:30 – Mrs. Murphy and Sons’ Irish bisto. Upscale…
I spent a lot of the last week thinking about and writing about police violence. I had a piece about the LAPD shooting come out from CNN that talked about looking at use of force incidents using a broad timeframe, not just concentrating on the moment of death. I followed on that in three blog…
Terrence McCoy of the Washington Post has published the latest mis-use of the word medieval, not as a casual pejorative, but as a specific pejorative. He writes: “The new Department of Justice report depicts a system in Ferguson that is much closer to a racket aimed at squeezing revenue out of its population than a properly…
A few days ago, before we had full information, I wrote a piece for CNN on the shooting of a homeless man named “Africa” on Skid Row in Los Angeles. Here’s my core argument: The media and the investigation will likely focus on whether Africa was reaching for an officer’s gun when he got killed….