Cat-sandal-shark is amazing.
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Category: Blog, Commentary and Articles
A section containing all blog entries, articles and commentaries. Many of these entries were imported from my earlier Blogspot, MovableType and WordPress blogs. In addition, political commentary, articles and essays written for publication and coursework can be found here. Much of the commentary in this section was published in The Multiracial Activist, The Abolitionist Examiner, The Good Men Project and Interracial Voice. Many essays in this section were written for coursework at the American Military University.
You are Likely the Reason Your Best Talent Leaves (or Stop Being Surprised by the Inevitable)
bgottsab / Foter.com / CC BY-NC Diane Marcus, writing at LinkedIn, on “How to Lose A Top Performer in 5 Ways“: “SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) reports that […]
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Exposure Can Kill You (or Starving for Your Friends is Bullshit)
Ian Sane / Foter.com / CC BY Scott Timberg, writing for Salon on, “Wil Wheaton is right: Stop expecting artists to work for free — or worse, for “exposure”“: […]
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High School Journalism
I received a request for an interview from a high school student, writing for their school newspaper. This isn’t the first time I’ve consented to an interview for a school […]
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Music Break: Digable Planets
Listening to Digable Planets and feeling peace like that…
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When Is The Right Time To Leave A Job
Talking with a colleague about when it is the right time to leave a job got me thinking about why I’ve left jobs in the past. My first gig out […]
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Music Break: Smokey Robinson
The personification of smooth.
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New Book Release: Really Bad Poetry from the Eighties and Nineties
So, I finally did what I said I was going to do so many years ago. I put out a collection of my early poetry. I have only been talking […]
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General Officers Letter to U.S. Presidential Candidates re: Torture
GENERAL CHARLES C. KRULAK, USMC (RET.) GENERAL DAVID M. MADDOX, USA (RET.) GENERAL MERRILL A. MCPEAK, USAF (RET.) GENERAL BARRY MCCAFFREY, USA (RET.) VICE ADMIRAL RICHARD H. CARMONA, USPHS (RET.) […]
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Strength Comes With Struggle
I have been told more than once that I have a LOT of patience and skill in dealing with difficult people. Oh, you seriously have no idea how I acquired […]
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