A friend, Kenny Childers of Gentleman Caller renown, posted two words to his Facebook Wall yesterday morning: “Jon Stewart”. The comedian and political satirist was in Bloomington Friday night and Kenny had been in attendance….
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An Idle Curriculum as Salvific
Update (in the body of the text) “What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?” Vonnegut’s fictional holy man Bokonon asks in the “14th Book…
The First Amendment Renamed the Gallows Doctrine
An unsound system requires as accurate a description and as severe an analysis as a sound one;…Error is not disarmed or disenchanted by caricature or neglect. (Frothingham, O. B., “Transendentalism in New England: A History”,…
It’s Not Who You Know, It’s Who You Really Are
Editor’s Note: All Links are Audio at You Tube. Sometimes we all get a bit bogged down. I spent the morning trying to explain myself and my perspective on how screwed up Western Capitalist thinking…
Summer Camps and Business Plans: Finance over Frolick
Sadly, for me anyway, my stupid brain keeps repeating a high school cheer heard by me at least 30 years ago, probably more, that, at the very least, plagues me to this day by popping…
Patriot’s Pen: VFW Asks “Is There Pride in Serving in the Armed Forces?”
I thought about writing an essay in response to this question posed by the VFW in their “Patriot’s Pen” contest. I thought about sending in my Daughters of the American Revolution essay from when I was…
From Sandlot to Moneyball: Mythologizing the Suits
Life Lessons. We pretend organized sports offers our children fields of learning; lessons about how to live in our culture. We can rattle them off easily enough: sportsmanship, teamwork, competition, fair play, following rules. But…
Farking Mentality: Degredation Is in the Eye of the Beholder
Yesterday our post “Nike: Just Watch! Girls Sidelined with Algebra Allergy” was “Farked.” Wow. What is Fark? From the “About” page: The first thing you should know is that Fark.com isn’t a Weblog. Fark.com, the Web…
Framing for Power: Becoming What We Oppose
Okay, I’ve been trying to suss out Lakoff and frames and metaphors of tribal response and so on. Today, after the dogs and I parted ways with the kids (they to school, us to find…
Framing the Family: No Moms Allowed
I’ll be honest, I feel somewhat in denial. Perhaps it’s a stage in a kind of intellectual grief. If, as I wrote yesterday, our politics is a “play of frames”–a “turning on” of certain metaphoric…