Thoughts for a Friday the 13th
On Muhammad Ali and "whites are devils," elite college students and terrorism, and lifting heavy things and music for doing so
[Walk home from work/communion with dear friends]
I admired the boxer Muhammad Ali as a boy, more than I can easily articulate. It would not be too much to say that, at age 10 or so, if someone had asked me what existing or historical person I most wanted to be, his name would have been one of the first to come to my lips.
[Which, in passing, let me say,…