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Why Romney Didn’t Get Enough Votes to Win
Published: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 by Rabbi Steven Pruzansky Rabbi Pruzansky is the spiritual leader of Congregation Bnai Yeshurun The most charitable way of explaining the election results of 2012 is that Americans voted for the status quo – for the incumbent President and for a divided Congress. They must enjoy gridlock, partisanship, incompetence, economic stagnation […]
The Story of the Unhappy Nail.
A cautionary tale penned by Anthony Wayne Kalberg (with apologies to the movie, “On The Waterfront.”) Once upon a time, the way all good stories begin, there was a nail. He did what nails do best – hold things together. Now this particular nail was unhappy doing what nails do best. So he said to […]
Kinard Fite
Kinard Fite – A Few Thoughts and Memories
I was saddened to hear of Kinard’s passing on September 7, 2012; for many months the man has been on my mind. Over the years I’d lost track of him, not knowing how to contact him. But after hearing that he did not wish for me to accompany him to the 20th Anniversary production of Sweeney Todd, I […]
Titanic Boat Songs. Great Collage
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The Art to Growing Old Graciously
Fifty years ago, when I was 10, I remember my sweet Granny from D’Lo telling me there was an art to growing old graciously. At the ripe ol’ age of 10, I smiled, not really knowing what that meant. Now I do. I was never good in art classes, but this is one “art” project […]
Attention First Baptist Church Crystal Springs, Mississippi
In church this morning at FBC Gulfport, I was shocked (but not surprised) to hear of your decision to deny a black couple’s marriage in your sanctuary. Was it due to their color? Is it somehow related to church politics? Or a power struggle to rid the church of some member or staff member? Whatever […]
Anthony Steps Out to the Titanic Anniversary Dinner
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What good deed will you do this day?
Mornin’ Folks! When I was a little boy, I spent summers with my sweet Granny from D’Lo, Mississippi. Each morning started with the smell of bacon and eggs frying in an old black skillet, the smell of coffee filling the air. We’d sit at her little breakfast table, say our blessing, and dive into the […]
Here’s the question: Are you a bully? Or were you the victim of one? I was the latter.
Reading about the poor teenager whose life has been irrevocably changed due to a spinal injury, the result of a bully’s fist punch to the boy’s abdomen, I was reminded of my days in High School. Thankfully, my injures were not physical, only mental.
To my angered Legislators:
“Many lawmakers – mostly Republicans – were fuming mad Tuesday over an online campaign that had teachers and other public employees and retirees ringing their phones and filling their email in boxes with complaints over a vote they took last week.” – this was the opening paragraph of today’s local fish wrapper. Fuming mad? It’s […]
Gulfport Little Theater Article
I did audition and got a part – a eunuch in Gulfport Little Theater’s 1975 production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. A eunuch? Don’t go there! But that first audition, that first part, and that first production was “the beginning of a beautiful friendship” with the local theater community […]
A Letter to the Editor
Before we pay a visit to our individual sheds, barns, or outhouses, in a combined effort to sharpen our plowshares, bring the tar to a bubbling boil, and snatch up all the pluck-able, non-laying hens we can find, I would request restraint from my Fellow Armpits… restraint and also patience. Download JPG – SunHeraldLetter
The Romance of Ocean Liners
The same thing this nation is going through now with this Titanic craze, the nation was going through 86 years ago.