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awelborn
Things get violence during a death-penalty discussion. In a class on the virtuous life. When the discussion turned to the death penalty, a male student said he was for capital punishment because the public shouldn’t have to pay to keep convicted killers in prison. Walters said death penalty cases cost even more money, and the…
Speaking of…
By
awelborn
…abortion in fiction, read this David Foster Wallace story, "Good People" in the most recent issue of the New Yorker. Stream-of-consciousness, such is the case with Wallace, but don’t let it dissuade you, if you would be dissuaded by such a thing. It’s a powerful story. Almost…well, you read it. (I don’t think these stories…
You know what’s startling?
By
awelborn
When you’re driving down the road at midnight in minus-minus-freezing degree weather, driving to pick up your daughter from school (yes) where the bus full of debate team members, in from the State Meet in Fabulous Kokomo, will soon be landing, and it’s dark and frigid and you’re barely awake and all of a sudden…
One year later
By
awelborn
The author of this article in AsiaNews sees small glimmers of hope in Trabzon, Turkey – the site of the murder of Italian priest Don Andreo Sanotoro on February 5, 2006 (as well as the hometown of the murderer of journalist Hrant Dink a few weeks ago): The Turkish Internal Affairs Minister, under pressure from…
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