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Apologize for what?

3/28/2022

 
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​It's a Monday night. I'm a white man in the middle of America typing next to a brown woman in the middle of the bed. She plays Scrabble on an iPad. She always plays Scrabble on an iPad. 

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Purdue loss to St. Peter's - one more heartbreak

3/26/2022

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It's Saturday morning, almost April, and it's snowing outside the kitchen window. At the same time, birds chirp up a storm. Maybe they see what I see - beautiful, graceful heavy flakes landing softly on a heap of leaves I gathered to take to the curb. Either that or they're pissed too. Everyone's tired of cold feet. 

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I drove down to Lafayette yesterday to hang out with Shamari Walker, the president of the Delta Sig fraternity and a proud graduate of a high school that no longer exists - Hammond Gavit. Shamari and I have been working for years on the HeyJED app. Punch one button on a phone and send me audio. Thousands of HeyJEDs have come in. We just haven't figured out what to do with it.

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Mexican contraband

3/23/2022

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​Like you, I woke to news of an interview that Dan Carden of 
The Times did with Indiana Sen. Mike Braun (R). Here's how Indy Star summed it up:

In a press call Tuesday, Sen. Mike Braun said the U.S. Supreme Court was incorrect in legalizing interracial marriage in a landmark case in 1967, and that the decision should have been left to the states.

I've interviewed Braun. I know some of his friends. I have never seen a hint of racism. He is not a racist. So before going on the air, I watched the interview. ​
Yep. He said it. Carden even came at him a second time. Braun said it again... but something seemed odd. Braun seemed distracted, almost disoriented. He's not a liar... I mean, lawyer... He's not schooled in rhetoric. And he's not a theoretical mathematician steeped in scientific calculus. He's a businessman, which he touts every chance he gets. ​

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My first 70-dollar tank of gas

3/21/2022

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I took a nap this evening, which is rare, but then again so is a drive to south Florida and back. It's like having jet lag after a flight from Tokyo, which I've never done. Verlie does it. She's a flight attendant who hosts with me on Tuesday mornings. 

The JED and Verlie Show, that's what Tuesdays should be called. Or, at times, The Verlie Show. I enjoy it when she makes me move quickly through phone calls, disagrees with me, tells me what the next topic should be... and brings me coffee. Tuesday is my easy day. I don't have to prepare. As the three or four of you know, I'm a closet preparer... the eighth grader who comes to a test acting as if he hasn't studied at all. Later, you find out from his little brother that he was up half the night at the kitchen table re-reading text. ​

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