Daily Archives: 2007-09-23

Radio Host Mike Gallagher Gets It Right About Mary Winkler

2007-09-23
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Radio Host Mike Gallagher Gets It Right About Mary Winkler

Conservative nationally-syndicated radio talk show host Mike Gallagher got it right about Mary Winkler in a recent broadcast. He panned her recent performance on Oprah and criticized the legal system's slap on the wrist for Winkler. To listen to Gallagher's broadcast, click here. To learn more about the Winkler case, see my co-authored column No…

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Funny 1981 TV Ad with Billy Martin and an Angry Umpire

2007-09-23
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Funny 1981 TV Ad with Billy Martin and an Angry Umpire

This is a funny 1981 commercial for the Oakland A's, featuring controversial former A's manager Billy Martin. FYI for non-baseball fans, Martin was super intense and something of a nutcase, but had an uncanny ability to take over wretched baseball teams and turn them into winners. For example, the Oakland A's went 54-108 in 1979.…

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A few parting words about the "Jena Six" protest march

2007-09-23
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It’s just marvelous that thousands of black people — many of whom had zero memory of the evils of segregation and oppression because it was so long ago — were able to indulge in an event that reminded the older participants of the “heady days” of the civil rights movement back in the ’60s. The…

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A few parting words about the “Jena Six” protest march

2007-09-23
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It’s just marvelous that thousands of black people — many of whom had zero memory of the evils of segregation and oppression because it was so long ago — were able to indulge in an event that reminded the older participants of the “heady days” of the civil rights movement back in the ’60s. The…

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Glenn Misquoted on ‘White Males’

2007-09-23
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Glenn Misquoted on ‘White Males’

I am misquoted in Jim Kouri's recent column Racism in government schools (9/18/07). I wrote to Kouri last week asking him to fix his article but have not received a reply, and I do not know whether or not he received my email. Anyway, I'll at least make the correction here. Kouri wrote: "According to…

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