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And in this case, the more is more interfaith cooperation, says Eboo Patel, founder of the Interfaith Youth Core, which seeks to “build mutual respect and pluralism among young people from different religious traditions by empowering them to work together to serve others.”
Read more about what Patel has to say about religious pluralism in my Sunday column here and learn more about the Interfaith Youth core here.
That’s how much will be spent on the Iraq war - money that could have been spent here at home. Say, rebuilding the parts of America destroyed by Katrina, which made landfall in New Orleans two years ago yesterday.
The never-tiring Mid-South Peace and Justice Center again focused attention on this foolhardy war at a rally Tuesday afternoon downtown. Read more about it in my Thursday column here.
The picture above is from a similar rally in 2005, when 1,400 boots - one for every soldier killed thus far - were displayed outside the National Civil Rights Museum. Back then, the entire exhibit was small enough to travel from city to city. Now, the boots would fill two tractor trailers, so each state displays a pair of boots for every soldier killed from that particular state. In Tennessee, that number is 81.
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but that’s where my defense of BET, also known as Black Entertainment Television, better known as Booties Everywhere Television for its parade of buxom babes bearing all but all, stops.I debated posting this here, as I’m guessing that iDiva has a fair amount of white Divas visiting. And it’s not as if white folks don’t know about the issues SOME in the black community face when setting their priorities. But this video, well, it’s like inviting the world in on the family intervention we’re doing with Pookie, our cousin who is a drug addict and overall miscreant. Yeah, the family knows about Pookie, but does everyone else have to know about Pookie? I mean, Pookie’s situation is embarrassing, and who wants to be embarrassed? Read the rest of this entry »
from a weeklong work-vacation trip to Las Vegas is not sleeping in your own bed, although I was looking forward to that. And it’s not finally being able to wash the bag full of dirty undies you’ve been stashing for a week. It’s not even being able to have a cup of tea when you want, without paying $3.50 for it through room service.
No, the very best thing about coming home is being greeted at the door by my beautiful dog. Even though she has three bad legs (seriously), she jumped up on me no less than six times in the first five minutes I was home. She turned in circles like she does when she’s excited (and her legs aren’t aching) and just smiled and smiled and smiled. Yes, my dog can smile and she was so glad to see me. And I her.
