Author Martin Landon

Combating Bigotry & Hate

June 30, 2018

Interview with an Asterisk

Please, just call me “*”—that’s what my friends all call me.

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Combating Bigotry & Hate

May 15, 2018

Weeds—A Parable

And sometimes a whole culture realizes belatedly that it has weeds–bad, bad weeds—and endeavors to pull them out, through...

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Scientology Religion

May 2, 2018

The Best Thing In The World

Life is the essential raw material of artists—be they sculptors, performers, painters, writers, directors, or whichever—they...

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Combating Bigotry & Hate

April 26, 2018

Don’t Take It Personally Or, What I Learned From My Cat

My point is she didn’t take it personally. She actually didn’t take it at all. She stayed calm and reasoned and level-headed.

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Tolerance

March 15, 2018

Peace On Earth By the Weekend! (Tuesday at the Latest)

An African-American man put this to the test recently when he joined a white supremacist group. After the initial cold shoulder...

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Tolerance

March 11, 2018

The Food Bigot

I am a food bigot. This was brought to my attention by my wife some years ago when she first served me eggplant. “I hate...

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Tolerance

February 28, 2018

BEEEEP!!!!!

"Prejudice" is actually a hyphenate: "Pre-Judge." Or, to put a further spin on it, “premature judging.” It’s not a new...

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Tolerance

January 27, 2018

My Father’s Journey from Darkness to Love

My father was raised as an Orthodox Jew in the early part of the last century, in the same Southwest Washington, D.C., neighborhood...

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Combating Bigotry & Hate

December 31, 2017

Breaking News: Scientologists Eat Salad!

How well I remember that morning in 1985 when I awoke to see a piece produced by a local Portland, Oregon TV news show marveling...

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