Poems: Autumn
The thistledown’s flying, though the winds are all still,
On the green grass now lying, now mounting the hill
The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary
Not Just a Number, Episode 15, The Girl Who Was Death
In one of the series’ last episodes, we get some send-ups of the spy genre of the 1960s.
Brain-Teaser for Today
Question: What is the principal difference between President Biden and President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho in the movie Idiocracy? I await your responses…..
Are the US Marines losing their Gung Ho?
This exercise does not provide an opportunity to “surrender,” “keep score,” or “reset.”
The Myth of American Regional Cuisines
I take it as a given that the strength of local and regional cultures can be measured in part by their distinctive cuisines.
Jerks 01.A–National Stereoptyes
Every human society has had its share of offensive or annoying people: busybodies and bores, poseurs and bullies, cheapskates and check-grabbers, hypocrites and egomaniacs. You might even be able to define some societies by the offensive characters they tend to produce or by the qualities they find most offensive.
Virginia’s Pyrrhic Victory by The Alabamian:The Historic Election of Lt. Governor Winsome Sears and Oh Yeah! that Youngkin Fella
Virginia! Oh Virginia! How far thou have fallen and are desecrated!
That is how I felt as I watched Southerners celebrating the election results in Virginia. Has the state that produced Robert E. Lee and “Stonewall” Jackson gone so far under the spell of multiculturalism that Virginians can fall for politicians who attack Southern traditions and Southern monuments.
Wednesday’s Child: Base Notes
I am not writing this on pagan Lemuria or on what to the Catholics in Italy is Ognisanti, in other words, on All Saints’ Day, but apparently on what is now a Russian state holiday called Bailiffs’ Day.
Go West, Men Young and Old: A Call for Help
Stephen has talked me into another pop culture series, this one on Western movies. Each of us will pick perhaps 6 movies to discuss, alternating classics chosen by me and post-1960 junk chosen by Stephen “the kid” Heiner. My entirely objective and non-judgmental language here anticipates the tenor of the discussion. The question for me, and perhaps also for Stephen, is: Which movies to pick?
