I decided to make this a separate post from my first one because it was getting long. The other point I wanted to make about words is how they can be used to make someone look like something they are not just from using the incorrect context.
I was reading an article on CNN about some [...]
Words part 2
Words
I have been thinking a lot lately about words: not just about meanings (both denotative and connotative), but also about how words and people co-exist. As a newspaper reporter, words are the building blocks of the work product I put out on a daily basis. As a freshman composition teacher, I [...]
Domestic partnerships part 2
As was expected, the Lovington City Commission voted down a proposed policy Monday that would allow the domestic partners and the children of domestic partners of a Lovington city employee to have access to city insurance benefits. Now City Manager Pat Wise had indicated in previous discussions about the policy that the city employees who [...]
A good day for black gis
The world of martial arts, for all its wonderful points and advantages to its practitioners has a dark side based on discrimination. If you are the only competitor wearing a black gi (or a red gi or a blue gi) in a sea of white gis at a tournament, you are more than likely in [...]
Death and Cynicism
Living as a reporter in a town with a gang problem I see a lot of violence that stems, supposedly, from gang activity and from retaliation for other events.
For example, Blood A does a drive-by shooting and kills Crip B. Within a few weeks, and sometimes months, Crip B’s fellow gang members are gonna set [...]
marriage
Monday night, I covered a regular meeting of the Lovington City Commission. One of the major items of discussion was a proposed domestic partnership policy. If enacted, this policy would allow city employees and their significant others who are not married to declare their relationship and domestic partnership thereby making the significant other eligible for [...]
