Wednesday’s Child: Flirting with Obesity
We exchanged some pleasantries, he patted my son on the head, and then he said, “You’ve gained some weight, haven’t you?”
Category: Access
Autodidact: Shakespeare and Greek Tragedy, I
This was a talk written for a Summer School in 2003 but perhaps not delivered. Lack of access to my old records prevent me from finding out.
Gavin Newsom’s Tyrannical Proposition 50
The bigger news is voters will decide Proposition 50 on Nov. 4. Given it affects the whole country, shouldn’t this be a national referendum?
Michael Hill: Bluegrass: The Music of the Mountain South
My paternal grandfather and I would listen to the Grand Ole Opry on Saturday nights on WSM-AM radio out of Nashville in the late 1950s and into the 1960s. Besides standard country & western, we particularly liked Bluegrass.
Piers Paul Read: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and the Invasion of Ukraine
Will the Baltic states be next? Or was the invasion in his view a preemptive strike against an existential threat to the Russian nation? Is it possible that the present conflict in Ukraine might have been avoided if the chancelleries and intelligence services of the Western powers had made a more thorough study of their enemy
Pio Nono Versus The Liberals, Conclusion
In the very years when Pius IX was defending his little kingdom, another war was waging on the other side of the world. There, too, an old-fashioned people in the Southern states were fighting to preserve their independence and their agrarian way of life against an aggressive industrialized power in the north.
Wednesday’s Child: Canossa Roadkill
The grassy knoll has firmly established itself in the narrative in the form of a Dairy Queen in Orem, Utah, but there are a myriad other suchlike tropes.
Wednesday’s Child: The Kindness of Strangers
Vasily, who turns four next month and whose verbal incursions are now all but irrepressible, doesn’t want me to “work.”
