http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/04/25/atlanta-blogs-today-cars-and-more-cars/ Atlanta news and views, one slice at a time Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:01:48 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/04/25/atlanta-blogs-today-cars-and-more-cars/comment-page-1/#comment-497 Ken Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:11:32 +0000 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/04/25/atlanta-blogs-today-cars-and-more-cars/#comment-497 Halberstan gave a great speech at my college graduation in 1982. Clocked in at a very bearable 14-1/2 minutes. Funny joke at the start about how he could tell us to fine upstanding lives and avoid sloth and indolence, but somehow didn't think whatever he said would change our minds. The main subject was guns: His brother, the founder of Handgun Control Inc., had ironically been shot In Northern Virginia earlier that year. I was just thinking of that speech after the Virginia Tech shootings. Halberstan gave a great speech at my college graduation in 1982. Clocked in at a very bearable 14-1/2 minutes. Funny joke at the start about how he could tell us to fine upstanding lives and avoid sloth and indolence, but somehow didn’t think whatever he said would change our minds. The main subject was guns: His brother, the founder of Handgun Control Inc., had ironically been shot In Northern Virginia earlier that year. I was just thinking of that speech after the Virginia Tech shootings.

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