Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.

He’s got a gun

The man has a gun
he knows how to use it
Nine millimeter Browning
let’s see what he can do

— Lou Reed


Capt. American was my favorite superhero as a kid — before I tired of the rigid world of good and evil. But there is something unsettling about this image, of the captain with a gun. It just doesn’t seem right.

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Saving religion and nation

James Carroll makes a case for the separation of church and state that should be required reading not just for “secular progressives” (to borrow the noxious Bill O’Reilly’s term) but for anyone who cares about the future of religion — and Christianity in particular.

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Runner’s diary, Tuesday

I hauled — well, you know what I mean. Ran seven miles in just under 62 minutes — which works out to an 8:50 per mile pace. That’s pretty sharp for me, and right in line with my goal to gain speed over the next three weeks leading into the Run with the Vikings 5K on Nov. 4.

Music: A mix

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