I have a new audio copy of Moby Dick. It’s 18 CD’s and has a playing time of 21 hours.
Mapquest says it would take just under 21 hours to drive from my home in Houston to City Hall in Detroit. Maybe I’ll do that. Let me see what the wife says about the idea.
I really don’t know what to say about this. Michael Vick is one of the most talented football players to lace up cheats in the last 5 - 7 years. He is fast. He throws lasers. He is Michael Vick. I don’t know what to think about this dog fighting thing. Did he think that he was above it all? Was he used by people that he trusted? Is he being railroaded? I don’t know. All I know is if you are a Black Athlete in today’s world, you have to be clean. Period. You aren’t going to get Scooter Libby breaks.
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Update from WaPo:
A federal grand jury in Richmond indicted Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick and three other men yesterday on charges related to their alleged operation of a dogfighting ring based at a property Vick owns in southeastern Virginia.
Vick, one of the NFL’s most exciting players, was charged with competitive dogfighting and conducting the venture across state lines. The 19-page indictment alleged Vick was highly involved in the operation, alleging that he attended fights and paid off bets when his dogs lost. It said he also was involved in the executions of dogs that did not perform well. (more…)
This sounds like that 1992 movie with Robert Redford and Sidney Poitier, Sneakers. Unfortunately, it is true. The government is keeping too much of our information. Congress needs to get busy. No summer recess. There are post-9/11 laws to overturn. There are rights to restore. There is a constitution to uphold. There is a war to end and a president to impeach.
On going violence. Huge explosion in the Kurdish city of Kirkuk. Prime minister Al-Maliki’s wild statement that the Iraq Armed forces can protect Iraq. Senators are battling for support.
The president mentioned Al Qaeda in his press conference on Thursday about a billion times. Again, he connected Al Qaeda in Iraq with Bin Laden’s Al Qaeda like they are one in the same. Keith and Roger Cressey, intelligence expert, tackle this factual error.
So a University board chairman was complianing that he was having trouble finding Blacks to full this board. I know 25 - 50 Blacks that are qualified right off the top of my head. Maybe there is something wrong with a Board in which someone can use the N-word and feel that it is okay. Maybe it has something to do with the atmosphere of the Board and of the School.
So, if you go to the Roger Williams web site and look under Fast Facts there is no mention of minority enrollment. None. There is only one photo that I can find that has a Black face. I admit that I didn’t look at every page on the web site but I did look at quite a lot. If you look under People Profiles there is no office of Minority Affairs. Interesting.
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From CNN.com:
The longtime chairman of the Roger Williams University board admitted Monday to using the N-word during a board meeting, saying it “kind of slipped out.”
“I apologized for that,” Ralph Papitto said in an interview on WPRO-AM. “What else can I do? Kill myself?”
Papitto, 80, who stepped down earlier this month after nearly 40 years on the board, admitted he had used the racial slur at a May meeting of the school’s board of trustees.
He had been discussing the difficulty of finding blacks and other minorities to serve on the 16-member board, which at the time included 14 white men and two women. (more…)
Errington C. Thompson, MD, is a surgeon, scholar, fulltime sports fan and part-time political activist. He is active in a number of community projects and initiatives. Through medicine, he strives to improve the physical health of all he treats...
