No Cure for Football Fever

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/CN0142020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans     My football career is long over and gone.  I’m not going to pretend that I didn’t love the game.  Truth to tell, I did.  I’m not going to lie and say that it wasn’t dangerous.  It was.  It is.  I know.  I was hurt, …

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New York Times Offers More Advice on Activism

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/CN01132020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans       The editorial page editor of the New York Times has embarked on an interesting strategy in recent years.  I’ve made some small comments about this in the past, but the pattern is so unmistakable that this is no longer a matter of coincidence or …

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“Say Nothing” and “What You Have Heard is True”

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/CN01122020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans     Maybe we have gotten lucky and dodged widening the war in the Middle East after what seems like an impulse killing of one of Iran’s top generals and a key spymaster.  The full story is still unknown.  What were the threats that were so …

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