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Wall Street Journal: Better Never Than Late 27 Aug 2013 | 01:22 am
Although it is years late to the party, the Wall Street Journal is finally acknowledging the negative impact that low wages have on the American economy, albeit in a twisted, delusional manner. A fron...
Along The Dune Line 27 Aug 2013 | 01:04 am
In 1980 I wrote a fifteen-minute film script about a subject most people give little thought to: sand dunes. The stars of this natural history documentary were sea oats, pelicans, shorebirds, and logg...
Sex and politics 26 Aug 2013 | 03:49 am
Once upon a time, almost no women held any kind of political office unless it had to do with children or schools. Even then, the higher up and top offices were always held by men. If you are young, ...
Number 99: The Southern-style (Chicago) Hot Dog 26 Aug 2013 | 02:45 am
Number 100 in my Top Meals was Shrimp and Eggplant Casserole, and Number 99 is — The Southern-Style (Chicago) Hot Dog! I need to explain that this recipe is way more Southern than it is Chicagoan. I ...
Why don’t Cumming city officials use e-mail? 25 Aug 2013 | 06:16 am
Why don’t Cumming city officials use e-mail? A bunch of old white men run Cumming, the Forsyth County seat. Last year, Mayor H. Ford Gravitt created a controversy by ejecting a citizen who was videot...
Not Just Refusing to Move to the Back of the Bus 24 Aug 2013 | 07:57 am
Black women stand at the intersection of two well-developed ideologies in America, one about women and one about Black people. In 1944, a Black woman organized others in her community to protect and d...
Church congregations merge, look toward bright future 24 Aug 2013 | 07:38 am
Name most cities in the Deep South and you will find a First Baptist Church there. But there is one city we know of in the South which has no First Baptist Church. Can you guess where that town is? ...
The Top 100 Books of All Time 22 Aug 2013 | 12:35 am
I doubt there is anything particularly Southern about a list of Top 100, Best 100, or My Favorite 100 books. Then again, proving that one is better read, or that one’s list of perused books is more ac...
Death Comes For The Dickens of Detroit 21 Aug 2013 | 08:18 pm
“I got one question. How you gonna get down that hill?” the hero Paul Newman asked Richard Boone, the classic villain, in the film adaptation of the 1967 film Hombre, based on the Western by Elmore Le...
We’re all hyperbolists 19 Aug 2013 | 04:32 pm
I have been completely unable to write since July 20. OK, really July 16 because July 20 was just me moping because Helen Thomas died. That’s more than a month. I’ve taken a vacation since that time....
