Selected Highlights

Season of Faith & Celebration

Posted by Bob Laycock on December 25, 2019 in Selected Highlights, This, That & Other |No Comments

Merry Christmas! to my Christian friends and those who follow Santa. Happy Holidays! to everyone else. The greeting “Happy Holidays,” as cheerful and simple as it is, has stirred impassioned controversy — despite the fact there’s also New Years Day too, a whole second holiday. It seems appropriate to wish happiness on both holidays, right? […]

Socialists Have It Right

Posted by Bob Laycock on July 2, 2019 in Guest Authors, Selected Highlights |No Comments

Guest Author: David Rowlands Introduction Today I welcome back guest author David Rowlands. We’ve been friends since college. (Yes, that long ago!) I write about politics here sometimes, but David’s commentaries are better. Just don’t tell him I said so. His first article I posted here presented a working-class perspective on politics. Five Examples where […]

30 Years of Pride

Posted by Bob Laycock on June 1, 2019 in Gay History Snapshots, Gay Video of the Week, Selected Highlights |2 Comments

≡ Snapshots of Gay History as Told Thru Video Today is Pride in the CLE, Cleveland’s annual LGBT Pride Day. The day will start with a march stepping off 11 a.m. from West 9th Street and Front Avenue, then traveling to Public Square where a festival will be held from Noon till 6 p.m. It […]

Remembering Dad at 21

Posted by Bob Laycock on May 5, 2019 in Selected Highlights, This, That & Other |2 Comments

My Dad passed away on Cinco de Mayo twenty years ago, plus 1. At 21 I guess that makes him an adult angel now. It’s amazing to think that he’s been gone nearly a third of my life. Yet he remains ever-present. I think of him almost everyday. And even when not, I know that […]

A Teaching Moment

Posted by Bob Laycock on January 27, 2019 in Selected Highlights, This, That & Other |8 Comments

There’s a teaching moment in all the uproar over events at the Lincoln Memorial a week ago Friday. But what is it? The privilege and racism of white suburban Catholic boys? Trump-inspired disrespect of Native Americans and indigenous cultures? Confrontation and suppression of Free Speech? The polarization of politics? The power and danger of social […]

A Working-Class Perspective on Politics Today

Posted by Bob Laycock on January 2, 2019 in Guest Authors, Selected Highlights |2 Comments

Guest Author: David Rowlands Introduction Today I welcome guest author David Rowlands. David and I are longtime friends going back to my college years. We met while doing political work together at Kent State University. David is former member of the United States Socialist Workers Party (SWP), not to be confused with a party of […]

Thou Shalt Not Love

Posted by Bob Laycock on September 1, 2018 in Gay Video of the Week, Selected Highlights |No Comments

≡ Gay Video of the Week Prejudice and bigotry against peoples of color, Jews, immigrants and others is rooted in class society where the ruling class needs to keep the working class divided against itself. The idea is divide and conquer, basically, so that workers will see each other as the problem and not the […]

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