Pity The Dreamers. Through friendships with educators and just living an urban life, I’ve come to know lots of immigrants. Many of them are Hispanic. I assume most of them are here legally, but I would never presume to ask. The people I know are family-oriented, hard-working, America-loving, pretty conservative, solid members of society and […]
Crimes of Identity
I’m imagining how much worse life would have been for my grandparents and mother’s people in the first half of 20th century, if Donald Trump had been around insisting that the Mafia be called Organized Italian Crime and calling for the resignation of a president who wouldn’t use the word “Italian” as the adjective. It […]
c.010101
Circa New Year’s Day, 2001, Day 1, of the new millennium c.010101, went live, first as a monthly e-newsletter, then as a blog. c.010101’s emphasis is the intersecting lines between all things culture and media—news, books, movies, web, creatives, celebrities, politicians, education, technology, healthcare, TV–anything consumable in this cultural candy store that we live with and […]
