So yesterday I wrote about a protest I happened to find myself near.  Last night a friend posted this news story describing the event.  From the photos, it appears that some people (“dozens”, according to the story) did, in fact, show up.  The initial article I read – which has since been edited – only stated that the NAACP was there to protest the statue and ask to have it removed.  Nowhere in the original article or its edit was anything mentioned about adding a memorial to the slaves that were sold on the courthouse grounds. Read More

Today was a beautiful Saturday.  I woke up nice and late, had some coffee, and took my truck to a friend’s garage to have some work done.  The wife suggested that we head to Leesburg for lunch before going home.  Little did we know the hotbed of racial unrest we were about to enter. Read More

Way back in 1988, Martin Scorsese unleashed The Last Temptation of Christ on an unprepared world.  Weeks….months even….prior to the release of the film, members of the Religious Right started losing their minds over this blasphemous travesty of a movie.  A movie that they hadn’t seen.  Non-members of their group looked at them as though they were frothing-at-the-mouth madmen, and derisively made fun of them.  There was late-night TV fodder for weeks.   Read More