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Last night, Dennise and I watched a 911 documentary on CBS. If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend it. It’s from two French film-makers who, in the summer of 2001 shadowed a FDNY unit in an attempt to tell the story of a “rookie’s coming of age.” But late that summer, on the morning […]
Read MoreI LOVE college football. Next to pro-baseball, it’s probably my favorite sport. And, given my disdain for the Rangers these days, I could easily argue that I even love it more than baseball these days.There is just something about the pageantry, the emotion, the excess of it. Pro football feels too, well, professional for me. […]
Read MoreLabor Day 2006 A reflection by Dr. Joerg Rieger, Professor of Systematic Theology, Perkins School of Theology When asked about the most important commandment, Jesus replied: “You shall love the lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength” … and “You […]
Read MoreIt’s been a full month since the blog-software meltdown. It’s been two months since the Mavs playoffs. That means we now have a full month of blog entries not affected by either my inability to post, or the hits from Gordon Keith’s site. So, it’s back to a relatively calm month for the blog. Lots […]
Read MoreI’m back to writing on immigration issues again. I’m not here tell you that migrant workers don’t cost the American economy. I’m sure they do. Every adult in this country costs the economy something. But if we are going to have a proper debate about the costs of migrant workers to our economy, then we […]
Read MoreFor the uninitiated, TAKS stands for “Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills.” It’s a standardized test given to Texas school children. The descendent of tests first created during George Bush’s governorship, they are required for advancement through Texas public school. And they are first given to students in the Spring of their third grade year. […]
Read MoreMaybe the song is too simplistic, and visualizing one of the world’s long-standing conflicts as nothing more than a “sibling rivalry” is naive. But the metaphor seems to fit, to my mind. Most sibling rivalries go on for so long that nobody even remembers quite what started them. This story starts with two “half brothers” […]
Read MoreThe core of the “Living Legacy” band is back. Doing Chicago means we obviously have to have a strong horn section. And, after rehearsal last night, it appears that we do. Phil West is anchoring them on sax. Cornell Kinderknecht is back with more great woodwinds. The horn section is really working on learning their […]
Read MoreThe show comes from Morgan Spurlock, who brought us the award-winning documentary, “Supersize Me!” If you’ll remember, the premise of that film was that Spurlock ate nothing but McDonald’s food for 30 straight days to see just what, if any, affects it would have on his body and health. If you saw the film, you […]
Read MoreWhy is our “Homeland Security” Department still wasting so much money? Despite this stunning and deft capture of terror suspects, the facts are that our government is wasting billions of dollars in a so-called War on Terror. I say “so called” not because we shouldn’t fight terrorism –we should. But some of the ways we’re […]
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