Tag: america
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Heartless Killers….
Ever look at a headline and you think wow, someone found that interesting enough to write about? (Quit smirking. This one doesn’t count.) I knew these brats were up to no good. But who knew J. Crew was still a thing? Their crap never fit me and always cost too much, but the pictures were…
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Is It Acceptable To Be An Angry White Guy…
…When what I’m angry about is all the other angry white guys who also happen to be stupid, gullible, rage-addled, entitled douchebags? Honestly, I’d made a conscious vow to lay low over the summer and on into November, partly to continue work on the novel that won’t seem to end, partly to enjoy more time…
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What Is Up With The French?
I’m a situationally humble person, when it comes to myself and my country (but not my kids, who are awesome, and if you’d like I can spend a few hours telling you why…) and as such one of the stereotypes I’ve fallen for over the years has been the idea of “the Ugly American abroad”–you…
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Wednesday Words (late) Ray Bradbury: If Only We Had Taller Been
I posted an NPR video a few days ago that featured this poem, and the video below, because it is SO DAMNED AWESOME, and because I’ve been reminded lately of how America, distracted by fear, anger, hate, suspicion, partisan caterwauling and self-serving rhetoric, has surrendered our collective zeal for greatness, settling for loudmouthed mediocrity. I…
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Tunesday: Jill Sobule Wants “Our America Back”
Jill Sobule always brings the goods. She’s funny, she’s cute, and she’s crazy cool. She says a bad word in this song, too–fair warning. She does THE BEST concerts, too.
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“When In The Course of Human Events….”
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which…
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Wednesday Words of Wisdom: W.E.B. Du Bois
One of the great writers and thinkers in the American legacy, the powerful and wonderfully controversial, W.E.B. Du Bois stands tall, his work growing in stature and significance as time passes, in the way certain monoliths seem not to dwindle in the the distance but rather to assert themselves by virtue of scale and prominence…
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What Did You Do on Memorial Day?
I woke up, did some chores, went to the home improvement store to buy some gardening supplies, visited a friend to drop off a box of onion starts I’d grown from seed, ran by the grocery store, went to the feed & supply store to buy some tomato seedlings to replace the few that got…
Old Road Apples 