1) Favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
2) Making progress toward better conditions; employing or advocating more enlightened or liberal ideas, new or experimental methods, etc.: a progressive community.
3) Characterized by such progress, or by continuous improvement
4) Iinitial capital letter] of or pertaining to any of the Progressive parties in politics.
5) Going forward or onward; passing successively from one member of a series to the next; proceeding step by step.
Here’s the gist: with the Phil “Duck Dynasty” Robertson controversy over homophobic and racist comments in a recent interview with GQ Magazine, it is private “hate speech”, not public “free speech” that we are dealing with; there is a monumental difference. How is it that the First Amendment is so universally misunderstood? I’ve read it all over the last day: “Phil is just speaking his mind!” “Phil can say whatever he damn well wants because of the First Amendment!” “Phil’s being punished for agreeing with the Bible!” (my personal favorite); “Just because Phil slammed a special interest group…..SMH!” “This is not…
Seeing as it is now the face of gay rights in U.S. professional sports, the NBA old guard should invest in some tolerance and semantics education, STAT. While the reaction to Jason Collins’ coming out was largely positive and most offered support and gratitude, there were also a few wrinkles and misconceptions that warrant a discussion. On a day when one of their own made history and took a giant leap of faith by becoming the first active male athlete in any major U.S. professional sport to publicly acknowledge that, yes, he is a gay man, the sentry of lifers…
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it. – Thomas Paine “…and I’m never goin’ back to my old school.” – Steely Dan Comedian Bill Cosby used to say, “Never challenge worse.” Words of wisdom that I really try to keep close as I walk through life and all of its wonderful nonsense. Bill would continue, “never say it can’t get worse because worse is rough,” and he was right. Anytime you challenge worse, it will turn around and punch you in the mouth. Worse isn’t just rough, worse can be downright mean, y’know? Last spring,…
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