Tag: snyder

• National Poetry Month: Gary Snyder

  Hay for the Horses by Gary Snyder He had driven half the night From far down San Joaquin Through Mariposa, up the Dangerous Mountain roads, And pulled in at eight a.m. With his big truckload of hay behind the barn. With winch and ropes and hooks We stacked the bales up clean To splintery redwood…

  JunkChuck

  April 11, 2014

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• On Dan Snyder, The Redskins, Free Speech and Flag Desecration

  Wow!  That’s a lot for one little article, eh?  A few weeks ago, I posted on my support of the effort to encourage Dan Snyder, owner of the Washington Redskins NFL football team, to change it’s name. A similar post planted elsewhere on the web stirred up a dialogue with a fellow I know from…

  JunkChuck

  March 2, 2014

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• An Open Letter To Dan Snyder & The Redskins: Time To Rebrand

  Not so many years  ago, the NCAA forced my Alma Mater, Indiana University of Pennsylvania–located in the town of Indiana, PA–to abandon it’s historic nickname, mascot, and iconography as “The IUP Indians.”  A lot of folks were resentful at the external pressure, a lot more were like me and just thought it was a big…

  JunkChuck

  February 3, 2014

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  adult, bondage, change, comic, crimson, D.C., dan, DC, demeaning, ethnic, football, hawk, hawks, heroine, indiana, insult, internet, iup, mascot, name, nfl, nickname, pennsylvania, redskins, slur, snyder, superhero, university, washington