If the government moves any slower, New Orleans will be what Harlem was in the 1970s. New Orleans may even produce what Harlem did back then - an American gangster. History has a way of repeating itself.
In the '70s, Harlem gave birth to Frank Lucas, one of the biggest drug lords in the United States, if not the biggest. (10) comments
I transferred to SJSU in 2005. Not only was San Jose a new place for me, so was attending a real university.
I lived on the third floor of Campus Village with three other men around my age.
I reached a point where I was afraid to take the elevator; I feared the notion of conversing with a stranger, or even standing near anyone in such a confining area. (0) comments
Driving to work at 7:45 a.m. the other day, listening to a local radio station's morning show - with a bagel in my right hand - it suddenly dawned on me that I had traveled two miles and I had no recollection of how I ended up in the far left lane.
The best way I could describe it is a case of extreme daydreaming, except in this case I wasn't dreaming about anything. (0) comments
Zionism: a political movement for establishing and developing a national homeland for Jews in Palestine. Today, in a region with the largest refugee population in the world, exists a few million hungry, homeless, malnourished Palestinians fighting for their lives. (84) comments