A North Texas school district has just ruled that teachers may carry concealed weapons: “When the federal government started making schools gun-free zones, that’s when all of these shootings started. Why would you put it out there that a group of people can’t defend themselves? That’s like saying ‘sic ’em’ to a dog,” Thweatt said […]
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Goodbye
From IHT: Mahmoud Darwish, the world’s most recognized Palestinian poet, whose prose gave voice to the Palestinian experience of exile, occupation and infighting, died on Saturday in Houston, Texas. Darwish was my introduction to Palestine. I can imagine that’s true for a lot of people like myself who, as students, fell in love with either […]
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The Way the World Sees Africa…
more graph humor and song chart memes *I would probably add lemurs to Madagascar and the Marrakesh Express to Morocco, but otherwise probably pretty accurate, huh?