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Last Chance Lost: Remembering Joel P. Smith | Mortal Coil
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Essays and opinion by Keith McWalter. The Next Sound You Hear. Not Voting is Not An Option. Last Chance Lost: Remembering Joel P. Smith. Last Chance Lost: Remembering Joel P. Smith. April 25, 2014. Death means many things, but one thing it means is that our chances are finite. To which one might say: so what? It was entirely too much. Joel was a lightning rod for the roiling emotions and opinions that gripped the campus in that fractious time. Could I have done it? Could I have done more? April 25, 2014 ...
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Essays and opinion by Keith McWalter. The Next Sound You Hear. Not Voting is Not An Option. Not Voting is Not An Option. November 1, 2016. As this supremely tawdry election season grinds to its conclusion, I remain gripped by the fear that Donald Trump could win this thing. Not because there is some undetected population of disaffected white male birther/Trumper/NRA bigots who will rise up out of nowhere and troop in unprecedented numbers to the polls; not because people have […]. September 22, 2016.
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Notes from Down Under | Mortal Coil
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Essays and opinion by Keith McWalter. The Next Sound You Hear. Not Voting is Not An Option. Notes from Down Under. Notes from Down Under. November 22, 2014. My wife and I recently traveled to Australia. My wife loves Australians, who confirm to her that her own virtues of bottomless affability and generosity are shared by large, if isolated, populations of people. I myself tend to favor Europeans, whose wariness and cynicism mirror my own, and who share my penchant for taking meals too seriously. Easy Ta...
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Republicans: Get Out There and Run! | Mortal Coil
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Essays and opinion by Keith McWalter. The Next Sound You Hear. Not Voting is Not An Option. Republicans: Get Out There and Run! Republicans: Get Out There and Run! July 31, 2015. At last count there are 17 Republicans running for President of the United States. They come from at least 14 different states (depending on whether you think of Trump as being from New York, New Jersey, or Mars), they are of at least both genders, and come from a wide range of backgrounds, to put it mildly. Don’t worry that you...
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Is Our Entertainment Moral? | Mortal Coil
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Essays and opinion by Keith McWalter. The Next Sound You Hear. Not Voting is Not An Option. Is Our Entertainment Moral? Is Our Entertainment Moral? August 29, 2014. This may seem a strange question, but it arises out of a recent experience that has set me thinking about some of our fundamental cultural assumptions. More particularly (and of interest to me), the Outstanding Writing award nominees were the following: Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, House of Cards, and True Detective. Why deliberately (and a...
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About | Mortal Coil
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Essays and opinion by Keith McWalter. The Next Sound You Hear. Not Voting is Not An Option. Keith McWalter is a writer and lawyer whose essays and editorials have appeared in. The New York Times. San Jose Mercury News. Collects some of his essays and opinion pieces as they are written. 8220;For in that sleep of death what dreams may come. When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,. Must give us pause…”. 8211; William Shakespeare,. Act 3, Scene 1. One comment on “ About. April 6, 2012 at 8:09 PM. While I...
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Right Result, Wrong Venue: The Supreme Court, Gay Marriage, and Judicial Restraint | Mortal Coil
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Essays and opinion by Keith McWalter. The Next Sound You Hear. Not Voting is Not An Option. Right Result, Wrong Venue: The Supreme Court, Gay Marriage, and Judicial Restraint. Right Result, Wrong Venue: The Supreme Court, Gay Marriage, and Judicial Restraint. July 2, 2015. Last week’s Supreme Court decision in. Obergefell v. Hodges. Ruling of two summers ago, which struck down the federal Defense of Marriage Act, did so in part on the ground that state marriage law (. But if I like this ruling today, I’d...
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Mortal Coil | Essays and opinion by Keith McWalter | Page 2
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Essays and opinion by Keith McWalter. The Next Sound You Hear. Not Voting is Not An Option. Binary Politics and the War of Values. June 17, 2016. Forget right and left, liberal and conservative, with all the baggage those labels bring with them. The division in the body politic springs from two fundamentally different value systems. What could possibly resolve these two points of view? Their debate is as old as the Enlightenment. Take the recent litigation brought by an order of nuns called the Little Si...
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Flying with Saint-Exupéry | Mortal Coil
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Essays and opinion by Keith McWalter. The Next Sound You Hear. Not Voting is Not An Option. March 14, 2015. I rarely am moved to tears by something I read. Our emotions are constantly tugged this way and that by the sea of media in which we live, and most of us have learned to swim against those currents, for they rarely take us anywhere meaningful. Saint-Exupéry is best known in America as the author and illustrator of. Yes, village of stars. Pilot, mechanic, and radio operator are shut up in what might...
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