Yesterday, a friend asked me what I thought of the participation of veterans in the events at the Capital Building in Washington, D.C. this past...
Opinion and Truth Are Not Synonyms
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“That’s the beauty of argument. If you argue correctly, you’re never wrong.”
—Christopher Buckley
For the sake of
ARGUMENT
TOPICS
Dialectical Writing, provocative, persuasive, and insistent.
- Toastmasters
- Marketing and Promotion
- Persuasive Essays
- Source Checking
- Rhetoric
- Literary Criticism
- Chautauquaa / Soapboxes
- Political Writing and Propaganda
AND STILL WE RISE
Hearing stories recently from so many young black men and women picked at emotional scabs from invisible wounds accrued over the years. We — meaning...
Turning Point
Many years ago when I was in college, I took a theology course on Spirituality. The professor, Fr. Gibbons, was also a columnist for a Catholic...
THE QUEEN’S GAMBIT: Spoiler Alert!
Ever since I was a kid I’ve loved immersing myself in a story and a world not my own. So, when friends began talking about The Queen’s Gambit...
ME, MYSELF, & WHY
(Riff—a phrase synonymous with tune, refrain, groove, sample, jam, strum, noodle—only here "riff" plays with words instead of lyrics or strings.)...
My Thoughts on the Book White Fragility
Who remembers the first time they understood some people were a different race than you? I was in 4th grade. I liked a boy named Danny, and he...
Eight Minutes. Forty-Six Seconds.
Ask anyone who has ever had cops for friends, and they will tell you the reason they all stick together is because so few understand or appreciate...
The Long Con and Donald Trump
On a morning in November 2016, I woke to discover America had elected the most noxious, abhorrent, psychopathic individual ever to enter American...
Perspectives from Across the Atlantic
On March 11, the Danish Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksen, announced that Denmark would soon be going into lockdown. In just a few days, I would be...
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