Month: September 2006
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Letter to the Editor: Gangster Rap is Demeaning to African Americans
This is a letter to the editor I published at the Daily Advance. Posted here for posterity, since they have no online archive: I need to challenge an assertion made in last week’s interview with music industry veteran Jerry Heller that gangster rap artists are portraying the “reality of their way of life.” Of NWA’s…
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Letter to the Editor: Two Case Studies in Dealing with Islamic Extremism
This is a letter to the editor I published at the Daily Advance. Posted here for posterity, since they have no online archive: Now that Israel has withdrawn from Lebanon after inflicting $3.6 billion dollars worth of damage and leaving hundreds of civilians dead, Hezbollah, apparently funded by Iran, now takes up the cause of…
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Letter to the Editor: The EPA vs People
This is a letter to the editor I published at the Daily Advance. Posted here for posterity, since they have no online archive: Shirely Powell recently wrote, “The well-being of a few water moccasins shouldn’t be put above that of our people,” referring to flood problems that cannot be alleviated because the EPA may be…
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Letter to the Editor: Politics Why Pluto was Demoted
This is a letter to the editor I published at the Daily Advance. Posted here for posterity, since they have no online archive: I am outraged at the International Astronomical Union’s ridiculous decision to demote Pluto to the status of “dwarf planet.” The new criteria defining planets, that the celestial object has a clear orbital…