It is hard enough going through life trying to fight every little injustice or worse, big homophobic ways of thinking.  I read the above article thinking it would tell me something about softball.  It did.  It also told me something of…

Had the super patriots of the day when Henry Cejudo’s parents were trying their undocumented best to help this country through their humble and hard work, chances are that today’s Olympic Medal Count would show the United States with one…

This past week we’ve been hearing the word “HERO” in connection with the Olympics in Beijing. Many of us have been watching and have witnessed Heroes like 13-time Gold Medal winner, Michael Phelps. What an incredible young man who has…

The front page of the Aug. 16 Post-Dispatch was just another example of the lack of respect, honor and knowledge of our country’s traditions and laws shown by the current generations. The image of Olympic competitor Christian Cantwell using the…

Have you read Newberry’s AP article about Michael Phelps next event, the 400 Meter Freestyle Relay, ” Bring on the French……”. For paragraph after repetitive gushing paragraph, Phelps won in world record time crushing, devastating, destroying, inundating, sweeping, eliminating, bullying,…

The opening ceremony of the Olympics presented by the Chinese Friday night was breath-taking in a way we may never again experience in our lifetimes. In sheer numbers it was astonishing to anyone in the performing arts: more than 15,000…

I am responding to the Sunday, July 13, 2008 article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch “Evictions Accompany Beautification in Beijing”.  One does not need to go to China and the Olympics to experience the gentrification described in this article. It…