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The moral, social, and political observations of a commentator living in the hinterland of rural South Georgia, far from the metropolis of Atlanta and even farther from the megatropolis of New York City.
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A View from the Hinterland: July 2013
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A View from the Hinterland. The moral, social, and political observations of a commentator living in the hinterland of rural South Georgia, far from the metropolis of Atlanta and even farther from the megatropolis of New York City. Saturday, July 20, 2013. An Open Letter to President Barack Obama. Dear Mr. President,. I would like to tell you about what I learned from Dr. Carey T. Vinzant. 8221; I was a sixteen-year-old high school junior; I entered Mercer that fall. I remember exactly one thing that Dr&...
A View from the Hinterland: An Open Letter to President Barack Obama
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A View from the Hinterland. The moral, social, and political observations of a commentator living in the hinterland of rural South Georgia, far from the metropolis of Atlanta and even farther from the megatropolis of New York City. Saturday, July 20, 2013. An Open Letter to President Barack Obama. Dear Mr. President,. I would like to tell you about what I learned from Dr. Carey T. Vinzant. 8221; I was a sixteen-year-old high school junior; I entered Mercer that fall. I remember exactly one thing that Dr&...
A View from the Hinterland: Are Double Taps Double Trouble?
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A View from the Hinterland. The moral, social, and political observations of a commentator living in the hinterland of rural South Georgia, far from the metropolis of Atlanta and even farther from the megatropolis of New York City. Friday, February 8, 2013. Are Double Taps Double Trouble? The "Century Marks" section of the February 6, 2013 issue of Christian Century. Contained the following item (citing the source as Business Insider, December 12):. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Husband to Debra; f...
A View from the Hinterland: I Believe Government is the Problem
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A View from the Hinterland. The moral, social, and political observations of a commentator living in the hinterland of rural South Georgia, far from the metropolis of Atlanta and even farther from the megatropolis of New York City. Sunday, June 15, 2014. I Believe Government is the Problem. I believe government is the problem. I believe that major American corporations will pay a decent wage to their workers without a government-imposed minimum wage. I believe that oil companies want America to find and ...
A View from the Hinterland: Passing the “No Religious Test” Test
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A View from the Hinterland. The moral, social, and political observations of a commentator living in the hinterland of rural South Georgia, far from the metropolis of Atlanta and even farther from the megatropolis of New York City. Friday, April 27, 2012. Passing the “No Religious Test” Test. Article Six of the Constitution of the United States). Some folks who accepted candidate Obama’s long–term participation in a Chicago Christian congregation as evidence enough—as if his own testimo...My point is tha...
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On the Jericho Road: March 2015
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On the Jericho Road. The place where Michael Ruffin asks questions, raises issues, makes observations and seeks help in trying to figure it all out so that together we can maybe, just maybe, do something about it. Tuesday, March 31, 2015. Forty Years in the Wilderness. Mama died in June and I left for college in September. Her exit from my life and my entrance into Mercer turned out to be two of the most formative events of my life. It was so long ago. It seems like yesterday. Links to this post. Debra a...
On the Jericho Road: An Open Letter to the Atlanta Braves Radio Announcers
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On the Jericho Road. The place where Michael Ruffin asks questions, raises issues, makes observations and seeks help in trying to figure it all out so that together we can maybe, just maybe, do something about it. Friday, July 3, 2015. An Open Letter to the Atlanta Braves Radio Announcers. Dear Jim and Don,. I like you guys, which is a good thing, since I have been spending a lot of time with you lately. I appreciate the work you and the crew do in bringing the games to us. 1 Describe the game. They dist...
On the Jericho Road: August 2014
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On the Jericho Road. The place where Michael Ruffin asks questions, raises issues, makes observations and seeks help in trying to figure it all out so that together we can maybe, just maybe, do something about it. Wednesday, August 27, 2014. Every Day is Dog Day. Whenever Mother’s Day and Father’s roll around children ask, “Why isn’t there a Kid’s Day? 8221; to which every mother and father who is asked that question replies, “Because every day is Kid’s Day! Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
On the Jericho Road: September 2014
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On the Jericho Road. The place where Michael Ruffin asks questions, raises issues, makes observations and seeks help in trying to figure it all out so that together we can maybe, just maybe, do something about it. Tuesday, September 30, 2014. 8220;Home is where the heart is,” they say. Yes, but home is also where the commitment is, where the sense of mutual calling is, and where the shared purpose is. Home is where sorrows are halved and joys are doubled. Home is where burdens are share...One of the firs...
On the Jericho Road: The Return Trip Effect
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On the Jericho Road. The place where Michael Ruffin asks questions, raises issues, makes observations and seeks help in trying to figure it all out so that together we can maybe, just maybe, do something about it. Tuesday, July 7, 2015. The Return Trip Effect. Maybe you’ve had the experience; I know I have, and many times. So you start the return journey, and you think, 'Wow, this is going to take a long time,'" van de Ven says. But the return trip seems shorter than you expected it to be. Where I read a...
On the Jericho Road: The Last Move
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On the Jericho Road. The place where Michael Ruffin asks questions, raises issues, makes observations and seeks help in trying to figure it all out so that together we can maybe, just maybe, do something about it. Thursday, July 30, 2015. We just moved. Again. If all goes according to plan, this will be our last move. We sure hope so. We’ve moved a lot. Well, not a lot compared to some families, but a lot nonetheless. Whew I’m tired. I remember a couple of gospel songs from my growing up years. One o...
On the Jericho Road: November 2014
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On the Jericho Road. The place where Michael Ruffin asks questions, raises issues, makes observations and seeks help in trying to figure it all out so that together we can maybe, just maybe, do something about it. Wednesday, November 26, 2014. Hi, I’m Mike, and I’m White. Clearly that group of young people saw it differently. How many times had it seemed that whites had been unfairly acquitted of crimes against blacks (the trial of the officers accused of beating Rodney King had just occurred in 1992)?
On the Jericho Road: Generations
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On the Jericho Road. The place where Michael Ruffin asks questions, raises issues, makes observations and seeks help in trying to figure it all out so that together we can maybe, just maybe, do something about it. Friday, July 31, 2015. Three years later, on July 25, 1921, Champ Lee Ruffin was born in that house. So last Saturday, the first full day that we spent in our new place just a little ways down the road from the house where he was born, was the 94th anniversary of my father’s birth. A lot of Ruf...
On the Jericho Road: December 2014
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On the Jericho Road. The place where Michael Ruffin asks questions, raises issues, makes observations and seeks help in trying to figure it all out so that together we can maybe, just maybe, do something about it. Monday, December 29, 2014. A Barnesville Christmas, Circa 1967. My family had Christmas Eve and Christmas Day rituals during my childhood in Barnesville, Georgia. Well, to Jesus and to college football bowl games. Then they would kiss and all would be right with the world. I sort of wondered ab...
On the Jericho Road: Going to Church with Dusty Rhodes
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On the Jericho Road. The place where Michael Ruffin asks questions, raises issues, makes observations and seeks help in trying to figure it all out so that together we can maybe, just maybe, do something about it. Wednesday, June 24, 2015. Going to Church with Dusty Rhodes. I would have liked to have gone to church with Dusty Rhodes. I never have, though, and now I never will. Dusty died on June 11 at age 69. Oh, you can’t get to heaven (oh, you can’t get to heaven). Lord knows, though, that a lot of us ...
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A view from the High Ground. I cant help but draw comparisons between the Katrina and the oil spill in the Gulf. Arianna Huffington helped me to put it into perspective. I am always amazed how quickly some people forget their own words. What I did was copy an article from the Huffington post. Http:/ www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/the-flyover-presidency-of b 6566.html. I then put her words in parenthesis and inserted mine in. See if this sounds like it is relevant today. Or (Hurricane Katrina ).
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Thursday, 18 October 2012. The journey that changed my life – Cycling Malaysia in 1987. Actually, the story starts one year earlier, with my first visit to Asia, to Thailand in fact. Which was a great disappointment. Do not misunderstand: I love Thailand, as I love Malaysia and Taiwan, and many other countries. This could have been the most stupid thing I had ever done, but it turned out to be the smartest. And, as I say, it changed the direction of my life in more than one way. I could still visit the t...
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A View from the Hilltop. A journey from our apartment to our dream home. Thursday, March 24, 2011. Since we bought the house a couple of interesting things have happened. Two hours after the closing Tom's parked, completely still truck decided to roll down the driveway. Along the way it knocked me down and almost ran me over. I hope that wasn't an omen. anywho here are the culprits:. Then Tom decided to clean out a drain outside the basement:. Yup that's a purple light saber. Skim coating like a boss.
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A View From The Hill(wigs). Wednesday, April 7, 2010. 5 Senses: Sense of Sight. I'm not sure which is more odd: that Gideon prefers. To wear glasses upside down or that he looks eerily like pictures of me from elementary school (sans pacifier, of course). After our usual preschool activities, we watched Sid the Science Kid's Super Fab Lab on the computer. Our own lab consisted of three parts: how glasses help some people see, how distance affects our vision, and using a magnifying glass. Jonas did an imp...
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A View from the Hinterland. The moral, social, and political observations of a commentator living in the hinterland of rural South Georgia, far from the metropolis of Atlanta and even farther from the megatropolis of New York City. Friday, November 27, 2015. I’ve been thinking about politics. Specifically, I’ve been thinking about why some of y’all are so pigheaded. Now that I have your attention, let me say that what I’ve really been thinking about is why we’re so angry with each other. I once described...
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A View From The Hook. Red Hook, Brooklyn. Saturday, September 27, 2014. German TV Covers Cruise Ship Pollution and Climate. On the Day 400,000 New Yorkers and many more around the world took to the streets in the "People's Climate March" demanding our leaders take urgent action to address climate change, the German TV show, "Weltspeigel" on the German public television channel ARD, was airing its story about cruise ship pollution. But, in all those announcements, barely a syllable about the maritime indu...
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A View from the Id. Thursday, May 10, 2012. The Life of Tibetan Nomads: 'Summer Pasture' on 'Independent Lens' May 10. Offer audiences a rare glimpse into the life of a Tibetan family whose lives are not so different from their ancestors’ four thousand years ago in a remarkable film, Summer Pasture. Living in Zachukha in eastern Tibet, thirty-year-old Locho, his twenty-seven-year-old wife Yama, and their infant daughter are nomads in the most remote county in Sinchuan Province, China. Is a fascinating lo...
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Anarchist voting : voting Anarchist. 8 November, 2014. The vote cage – by Brighton Solidarity Federation. In 6 months on 7th May 2015 we have the opportunity to vote out the shambles of the Con-Dem Coalition and condemn David Cameron to the scrapheap of “one term Prime Ministers”, and Nick Clegg to where he belongs… wherever that may be! However I as someone who identifies as an anarchist, or anarcho-syndicalist. I can’t and I don’t. In fact I question the wisdom of my own abstentionist p...8220;…i...
