In virtually every way, including the size of their family, John and Paula Lawrence are quintessentially middle class. They live in a white brick Colonial in the leafy upper Northwest section of Washington. He is a commercial real estate lender. She is an audiologist. Their daughter, Candice, 12, attends private school, plays violin in a [...]
I’m sorry that you took my thoughts completely out of context. It’s meant as a personal anecdote to the essay by Paul Graham, ‘Why Nerds are Unpopular’ taken from my admittedly limited life experience. The fact that I am responding to someone else’s essay while stating that I am from central, PA should be the [...]
The worst thing about Mccain is that he is devider. It is a scary thought he tries so hard to do that. He even tried to make sure Obama repudiated REP Lewis an American ICON a person who fought for this country to be a free and true to its identity. A person who changed [...]
Some guys like to compare the racist past of Democrats with the racist past AND present of Republicans. Obviously those two aren’t the same thing. The point isn’t that, in the past, Republicans have had racists among them–it’s that they still have racists among them whom they venerate. People don’t begrudge Robert Byrd for being [...]
PBS taught my sister and me to read long by preschool. For many years it was the only channel I watched. My aunt worked for a major publisher in the city and sent me a book every year as a child. In a strange twist of fate, I now have a corporate discount to a [...]
I’m not a lawyer, but I’ve always understood the idea to be: if the police can search your house without a warrant (or whatever), and still use the evidence in court, whyever would they bother with warrants at all? Why wouldn’t they just say: “oh dear, we forgot to get a warrant before we searched [...]
Or, seriously, why wouldn’t the Obama campaign bring Sinbad to the stage for this one? Don’t they owe him for calling out Hillary Clinton’s b-s about that “hair-raising” trip to Bosnia back in 1996? That incident, as much as anything, sealed her fate in the primary.
School officials in Terrebonne Parish are considering a policy that would require all commencement speeches to be in English. The proposal comes after Hue and Cindy Vo, cousins who were co-valedictorians at Ellender High School, delivered part of their commencement addresses last month in Vietnamese. Cindy Vo, the daughter of Vietnamese immigrants, spoke about high-school [...]
In a nationwide poll of police by the National Institute of Justice, 61 percent said officers “do not always report even serious violations by fellow officers,” and 67 percent said whistle-blowers were likely to be “given a cold shoulder.” So why should bad guys and ordinary citizens pay heed when police and prosecutors lecture them [...]
Without commenting on whether my skin color makes me a mark, saying it’s just a matter of being street smart is a little too cute. I grew up on the Upper West Side pre-gentrification; I’ve lived in West Philadelphia and on the South Side of Chicago (safest place I’ve ever lived); and I now live [...]
