Just Three Minutes, Please : Thinking Out Loud on Public Radio.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Aches and Pains -- The Unkindest Cut of All -- The Quality of Our Mercy -- Sum of Its Parts -- Vote With Your Feet! -- The Lame of the Earth -- II. Almost Heaven -- The Wild, Not-So-Wonderful Whites of West Virginia -- Tale of Two Countries -- Voting, In Black and White -- Foul Play! -- III. Country of the Second Chance -- Unwired -- Country of the Second Chance -- Immigration Nation -- Some Truly Affirmative Action: A Farmer on the Supreme Court -- The Business of America -- BP and Our Human Shadow -- Change We Don't Believe In -- Taking Back the Saddle -- Right to Bear Harms -- The Dirtiest Word in America -- Gay Marriage and the Pursuit of Happiness -- The Sweetest Dream that Labor knows -- Heroes with a Thousand Faces -- A Modest Proposal -- Encore! -- Lynched -- IV. Of Minds and Mindfulness -- A Mind of Winter -- College Days, Danger Days -- On-line and On Point, But Way Off Course -- None of Your Business -- In Praise of Doing Nothing -- About the Author.

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