My two-cents worth and then some. An online journal by LP Brown.

Naked Pregnant Celebrities on Parade

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Boomers, do you remember back in 1968, when the musical Hair made its debut on Broadway, and there was much to-do about the nude hippies in the finale of Act 1? The show’s nudity was a first for Broadway.

Over time, naked celebrities and nude scenes in movies and other public venues has become so prevalent that it is boring. Perhaps that is why, in 1991, photographer Annie Leibovitz and Vanity Magazine got creative and decided to one-up things by putting a seven month pregnant Demi Moore on the magazine cover.  Since then, pregnant celebrities have been jumping on the Lamaze bandwagon to go with the flow.

African American actress Nia Long is now following the trend of Demi Moore, Britney Spears, Mariah Carey, Erykah Badu,Tia Mowry and a growing list of other celebrity women who, while in advance stages of pregnancy, bare their

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Facing the 11th Hour

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September 29, 1995 was the deathday of atheist, Madalyn O’Hair.  O’Hair became famous – some would say infamous – in 1960 when, after declaring that it was unconstitutional for her son, William, to be required to participate in religious activities at school, she filed a lawsuit against the Baltimore school system. That suit eventually led to the Supreme Court decision that banned prayer in all public schools.   

Twice married, O’Hair had two sons, Jon and William Murray. Prior to becoming estranged from William, Madalyn adopted his daughter, her granddaughter, Robin. William incurred the wrath of his mother in 1980, when

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Reassessing the Death Penalty

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My cousin, who I love dearly, and who is also the author of a previous post on this blog (Viewpoint on the Death Penalty) has been trying for years to convince me of the injustice of the death penalty. To say that he is an adamant opponent of the death penalty would be an understatement. His reasons for opposing capital punishment are numerous, but topping his list are these: the possibility of a wrongful execution of innocent people, racial bias, and taking the life of another person under any circumstance is morally wrong. The pending execution of Troy Davis has renewed our debate. 

I was neutral on the death penalty issue until sometime during the 1980’s when six year old Adam Walsh was  murdered and decapitated. Until then, the most horrific crime I had ever heard of, I learned about as a child. The story – told and retold by my parents and numerous adults in my extended family – detailed the torture and murder of  Emmett Till in 1955. Till, a 14 year old black boy, while visiting Money, Mississippi from Chicago, allegedly “disrespected” a white woman. For his action during that pre-civil rights era, Till was severely beaten, had an eye gouged out, was shot, and then 

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