Mel Brennan

Frank Deford - 'Fisher' of Men

Mel Brennan — 2005-11-10T12:12:00Z

You know, I didn't think that sports commentator Frank Deford could be any more wrong, or wrong-headed...

What is “commentary?” Is it an informed take on the knowable facts or it is wild, unsupported unsubstantiated opinion based on nothing (at least nothing investigatory or scientifically methodological)? Is it effective and insightful, or a simpletonic spouting that is as far from meaningful “comment” as one can get without becoming Dr. Laura, Dr. Phil, or Sean Limbaugh?

Iraq : Can we just leave? No.

Mel Brennan — 2005-10-07T01:10:00Z

The only way to reflect America in best practice today is to truly internationalize the rebuilding of Iraq , remove US and UK companies, and set a sooner-rather-than-later timeline to ensure that Iraqi businesses that are Iraqi-based and wholly Iraqi-owned are launched, developed and empowered to complete the rebuilding in ways that Iraqis see fit... -

“The Clutch”

Mel Brennan — 2005-05-01T09:56:00Z

From the Abolitionists, to the labor and child labor movements, to the suffrage movement, to the political rights and civil rights and Indian rights and women's rights movements to the gay/lesbian rights movement: none of these are naturally provided for in either the letter or the interpretation of the Founding Document of the American nation. Rather, the Idea behind such movements was that with the Constitution as a basis, if we stood fast, stood courageous, in the streets for those rights and in the courtroom (and the jail, and in the morgue) for that change in the law, we would have a nation in practice like the one in the American Dream.

Thus, we stood, generationally, in each historical moment, in the clutch.