In my freshman year in high school, 1960, I participated in the Kentucky high school regionals of what was called The State Speech Festival. Organized like Spelling Bee competitions, the best of the best at the regionals would be selected…
Category: Race and Culture
David Hogg, Emma Gonzalez and the Vanishing Bloody Nose
A lamentation As you know, I’ve always been a big believer in the curative effect of the bloody nose, especially since, despite all my mother’s efforts to have me learn the path of the straight-and-narrow in Sunday School and church,…
How the Next Civil War May Take Shape; A Reprise of the 60s?
In the 1960s, 1) with an anti-war movement scripted, and even controlled more than we knew, straight from Moscow, 2) a civil rights movement that would be ensnared and redirected as soon as Dr Martin Luther King and his closest…
American Exceptionalism or American Freak show?
I recently watched an interview of Barack Obama in which he discussed the parallel views of reality in American politics. (It was undated, so I don’t know if it was made during his term in office or part of his…
What’s New Pussycat? The Hollywood Zeitgeist of the Ages
Seems the Hollywood Academy Regrets Their Hasty Decision to Banish Harvey Weinstein You see, Hollywood had forgotten their past 20-30 years of moral outrage had always been pretend, or at least selective, but once Harvey was dispatched, that outrage sated, there was a flood of…