Month: November 2009
Socrates might have us believe that the unexamined life is not worth living, but plenty goes unexamined in this life. Or maybe we know it is there, and we look at it from time to […]
You are an English major because you don’t know what you want to do with your life, and reading and writing are like breathing to you, the easiest paths to sure As. Â You haven’t particularly […]
Thanks to the Huffington Post, I found this video of last week’s so-called Klan rally at Ole Miss. Watch it. Watch it through to the end. Ole Miss probably has the longest and most painful […]
I was eleven years old before I understood that the N word was offensive. Â I’ve told this before to friends, and some have denied that this is even possible, but it was the 1970s in […]
Once my nephew got in trouble at school for clowning around. Â His mother did the only thing she could do and told him to quit that. Â He said, “But you don’t know how hard I […]