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Cleveland: Champions
The Cleveland Cavaliers did it. Down 3-1, they came back and WON the NBA Championship. The first team to do that ever. Just because it hasn’t been done, doesn’t mean it can’t […]
Confessions of a sports jinx
On Friday, May 13, I was having dinner with friends and the subject turned to superstitions. When my turn came I fessed up: I am a sports jinx. Or at least I […]
Right-wing domestic terrorists have carte blanche
It’s good to be a white domestic terrorist in the United States. Armed self-proclaimed “militia members” have seized control of the headquarters of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Oregon. Gun-toting individuals from […]
New Year’s Eve cocktails and libations: cheers from Scholars and Rogues
With the new year nearly upon us, our thoughts have turned to a bit of end of the year celebrating. I asked my fellow Scrogues for some recipes and recommendations for appropriate […]
Pay-to-play GOP debates
Last night Donald Trump made an interesting proposal: CNN should pay $5 million for Trump to participate in the next GOP debate on December 15. The money would not go to Trump, […]
Would Donald Trump close the Westboro Baptist Church?
I’m not saying that Donald Trump ought to close the Westboro Baptist Church. Or that Donald Trump ever said that he might close the Westboro Baptist Church. I’m just asking if he […]
The EDWINS Project: a model from Cleveland for reentry
A couple of weeks ago I got to tour a new residential project that is taking shape a few blocks from where I live. It’s not a new a development or a […]
The sin of gun violence
I have been asked many times in my life whether I “believe that Jesus died for your sins?” Well, yes I do. But I also believe that Gandhi and Martin Luther King […]
Ben Carson’s magical thinking on the Holocaust
In yet another bit of stunning historical revisionism, GOP Presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson claimed in an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that the Holocaust may not have happened if Europe’s Jews […]
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