Posts Tagged social change
Age and Perspective
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on September 16th, 2011
One of the (very few) benefits of growing old is that you gain perspective. Sometimes, that also leads to a modicum of wisdom, sometimes not–but it does mean that one’s frame of reference is larger and longer. To use a very common example, you can’t truly appreciate how dramatically the internet has changed society if [...]
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Times that Try Us
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Gay Rights on March 27th, 2010
It seems to be increasingly fashionable—at least among angry Teabaggers—to quote (selected) Founders. So perhaps I should begin this column with Thomas Paine’s famous “These are the times that try men’s souls…” Of course, Paine was writing during some of the darkest days of the Revolution, not during a sustained snit by people with a [...]
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