Tag: union
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So: What The Hell is Cinco De Mayo?
I grew up up rural western Pennsylvania, and I never even heard about Cinco De Mayo until I was grown up. I mean: hell, we didn’t even have tacos until the 1980s. Not in the town where I lived. Even after I first heard of Cinco De Mayo, I just assumed it was another one…
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War Is Cruelty, And You Cannot Refine It
Excuse me a moment while I alienate all the southerners reading this blog…. This is General William Tecumseh Sherman on scenic horse ride through Georgia–I got in a bit of a kerfluffle with a southern stranger on Pinterest last year after I pinned the image to the right on the photo saving site, along with…
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Theme Thursday: Coal Country
In case you haven’t noticed, I’m fond of having themes among the posts on this blog–the continuity is nice, and it’s somewhat inspiring when faced with a blank page to have a theme to fall back on. The idea of the setting on Coal sneaked up on me from two directions: last week, the student-operated…
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Jim Crow, Thy Middle Name Is Kansas
I’ve been through Kansas a few times–it doesn’t seem like a bad place: lots of sunflowers to go with the wheat, though it’s awfully flat, which puts that whole tornado alley/Wizard of Oz thing is perspective. One of my very favorite people loved Kansas, and while he lived there only briefly I’ll forever attach his…
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The State of the Union is COLD
Mrs. Junk and I watched President Obama deliver yet another State of the Union address last night, though I did so with mixed emotions due to the President’s inconsiderate preemption of one of the three hours of television I most enjoy each week–Person of Interest. I’m interested in politics and have very strong opinions that…
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