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Perhaps history will deem fair the guilty verdict in George Floyd's murder. Perhaps the verdict will go a way toward bending the arc of the moral universe.
For Scots, this day reeks of blood, sweat and tears. Today is the anniversary of the Battle of Culloden on April 16, 1746, when the Jacobite uprising of the Scottish Highlanders was smashed by the Read more
A sign on a pub, seared in my early childhood awareness in the 1960s, resurfaced in memory, on International Women's Day: "No Dogs or Women" it declared. The right to enter a pub is a small symbol, part of an issue that's anything but trivial.
People, so many people these days, seem on the verge of losing it. If we're lucky, a dog - or two - will come to the rescue.