Monthly Archives: January 2009

Hidden shame

A woman without hair, a man with a diseased penis, a teenager with psoriasis all over his back, a woman with severe varicose veins, a manager with a record of a sexual infraction… If I extended this list, I might eventually get to something that you identified with yourselves. We almost all have shames or [...]

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Desegregation

I have never quite understood the hype seen during each presidential inauguration. It just never seemed like that big a deal. On the other hand, while still way over the top, Barack Obama’s swearing in ceremony today was truly historic. Part of me says; What’s the big deal? Blacks seem fully integrated into American society. [...]

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The depths of cruelty

In yesterday’s Montreal Gazette, former editor Norman Webster wrote about Tuol Sleng, the former high school that became S-21, the Khmer Rouge’s primary prison and torture center. Tuol Sleng and the Khmer Rouge regime represent everything that is wrong with human nature. And it is merely a single chapter in the long history of man’s [...]

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