Housing issues
Upstairs shower is raining on my downstairs office. moved computer and everything out so that the plumber can get in there tomorrow. More blogging soon.
Oh, this is going to be expensive.
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Countdown - Huckabee and Giuliani
Former Governor Mike Huckabee and former mayor Rudy Giuliani spent the weekend defending themselves. Huckabee is still answering questions on the Wayne Dumond case ( a convicted rapist who was released from jail early while Huckabee was governor, Dumond subsequently raped and killed another woman). This weekend his comments on AIDS have surfaced. His 1992 comments about isolating people with HIV and AIDS revealed an extreme part of his personality that voters haven’t seen.
Meanwhile, Rudy Giuliani was getting beat up by Tim Russert on Meet the Press. (I find it interesting to see who Tim throws softballs and who he brings the heat to.) Rudy has had such a collection of bad press, Russert had a huge selection to chose from.
Paul Laurence Dunbar–Words & Deeds
Recently I read the Paul Laurence Dunbar novel The Sport of the Gods. This short book, published in 1901 as Mr. Dunbar was dying of tuberculosis, is about a black family that has moved from the South to Harlem. As you might suppose, it is a bleak tale.
Mr. Dunbar, who died at age 34 in 1906, was once termed by Booker T. Washington as the “Poet Laureate” of the Negro Race.
Mr. Dunbar was known as a “dialect poet.” He added black “dialect” to his poems. This was not “proper” English. Mr. Dunbar did this to gain acceptance as a poet. Mr. Dunbar did not always want to write in that form, but found it difficult to find equal praise for his poems in standard English.
This is what happens when your work is defined by people, who, whatever they might claim, do not at heart care about you as a human being and do not care about your aspirations in life.
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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...
