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I was just reading this article from the Denver Post, which goes into detail about how security plans on caging those practicing free speech at the Democratic Convention in Denver.

Free speech in a cage. Yeah.

The report is bleak, friends, and Nashville has many of the same concerns; lack of affordable, supportive and importantly, respite housing (and footdragging on damned near every aspect of procuring more), inadequate, underfunded - and in Nashville's case, fragmented and scatted - government and agency services (at least CA has a "general relief" fund - Nashvill

Name that tune. Someday I'll tell you about the college non-boyfriend with whom that was our non-song, but that's for another time. It feels a little cheesy now, but I always liked that line, and it works here.

Last week, the world mourned the loss of Irena Sendler, a 98-year-old Polish woman who helped smuggle some 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw ghetto during the Holocaust.

Sendler was employed by the city's Social Welfare Department during that time, and she began helping Jews before the ghetto was established in the Polish capital -- a crime that was punishable by death.

I totally shouldn't be doing this, but since my seniors' classes ended, that only leaves me with one class a day to teach. So, instead of paying bills, grading tests, or doing inventory, I'm going to tell you about some stuff that has caught my eye lately:

It's misleading, not to mention somewhat of an insult to the intelligence and effort of those who have worked diligently to increase public awareness about people experiencing homelessness and the issue of panhandling to state, as does Denver's Jamie Van Leeuwen, that "

I was terribly cruel and insensitive to the plight of what remains of the Burmese people earlier this week by intimating that Queen Laura should quit begging the Myanmar junta to steal our tax money intended for the poor and needy (as our voracious Imperialist Hegemonic Empire is wont to do).