Houston has had a rash of gang-related killings. It’s getting harder to keep track of, but according to the Chronicle, we’re at six, now, in the last three weeks.
Understandably, the community is concerned. “What’s happening to our children?”, they’re wondering.
Polimom has some very bad news:
Children do not jump one another with baseball bats, […]
There’s a full-court press underway in Iraq to pull things together, and while it’s all quite fluid, this week has brought daily surprises. This morning is no exception (from WaPo):
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Wednesday proposed a limited amnesty to help end the Sunni Arab insurgency as part of a national reconciliation plan that Maliki […]
Congress — that hard-working bunch of men and women who have been assiduously and selflessly aggrandizing themselves serving the public in recent years by working together to control spending and balance budgets — allowed their automatic COLA (Cost of Living Adjustment) increase to go into effect:
Despite record low approval ratings, House lawmakers Tuesday embraced […]
Sunnis. Shi’ites. Kurds. Insurgencies. Jihadists. What’s up with Islam, and why does it seem so warlike?
During a recent discussion, someone asked my opinion about Islamic extremism, and whether there’s any hope for peace with a religion that teaches war. In particular, they wondered about my interpretation of the Quran, and why it’s so different […]
Meanwhile, over in New Orleans, they not only continue to deal with the post-”Thing” difficulties, they’re still stuck with residual insanity from the past. Like this:
The same system that locked up Sims in August 2005, on a year-old charge that she had offered oral sex to an undercover cop on Tulane Avenue for $20, let […]
Polimom remembers being young and idealistic — years when injustice, perceived or real, is magnified exponentially, and angst rules the mind. We all came through that phase, and I’m sure you can look back and remember when some cause was the overriding problem in the world, and in your life (WaPo):
“Young people are looking for […]