Charlie Rich
An FB friend posted a Charlie Rich lyric.. It took me back a few years. I was a bit late in learning to appreciate Charlie.
Author: Thomas Fleming
The Doctor is In: Defending the Empire
What are we going to do about China’s threats against Taiwan? More importantly, what are we going to do with the tacky music at the end? Someone place tell me who sang this monstrosity.
Who Killed Roger Rabbit and Started Gulf War II?
My remarks on the late Don Rumsfeld sparked a set of responses that evolved into discussing the cause of the Second Gulf War. It may be worth a little time to wonder if such explanations are of any value.
The Doctor Is In: Oracular Wisdom
A podcast in which we begin to answer Dot’s question about the Delphic Oracle. The background of the image is a theater at the Oracle of Zeus at Dodona.
Fleming Interviewed by Buck Johnson
Podcaster and musician Buck Johnson interviews the nominal head of this website and organization.
Donald Rumsfeld, R.I.P.
Some conservatives are already ridiculing an Atlantic Monthly hit job on the late Donald Rumsfeld. Apparently, they don’t realize that a magazine staff writer is an expert on war and management. (This guy brags about how astonished DOD aides were, when he outlined his critique of the Iraq War.)
Journalists are like doctors: They know everything, especially in fields they have no experience in.
The Blondes of Wisconsin–Bukoski’s Best
In recent decades Anthony Bukoski has emerged as one of the best writers of short fiction, not just in America but in the English language. He has turned the ugly streets of his native Superior, Wisconsin, into a literary landscape as mythical as Faulkner’s Mississippi and Tolkiens Middle Earth and populated it with unforgettable characters whose failures and follies are redeemed by their self-respect and their capacity for love. Of his earlier collections, I wrote previously: Anthony Bukoski is one of the finest fiction writers in America. Stolidly remaining in the grim ruins of Superior, Wisconsin, he has...
Herodotus: The Ionian Revolt
Miletus came to terms with the Persians and installed a pro-Persian regime that was headed, some 25 years later, by Histiaeus. When Darius the Great was retreating in disarray from Scythia, the Greeks were protecting the bridge, which made the retreat possible. As Herodotus tells the story, the Scythians approached the Greeks and advised them to burn the bridge. Miltiades the Athenian, who had become a wealthy potentate in Thrace, was all in favor, but Histiaeus of Miletus dissuaded the other Ionians from following this advice.
Summer Seminar: Chronology, Bibliography, Information
This is the second draft of the Chronology–from Rome to Mussolini. I have also included prose translations of several poems of Agathias Scholasticus, the historian who completed Procopius’ unfinished history of Justinian’s wars. I hope also to post translations of Sidonius Apollinaris and Venantius Fortunatus.
Who’ll Stop the Rain?
As politicians go, the governor of Florida is one of the best we have, but he is not an educated man and does not at all understand the evils that have been perpetrated by American public education, and, since he does not understand the causes of the problem, he is incapable of devising a workable solution.
