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Mississippi Revising
The following contains discussions of the endings of the movies Mississippi Burning, The Help, and Django Unchained. This maybe isn’t such a big deal since their endings are all eminently predictable if not a matter of historical record, but in … Continue reading
The 19th Century
Was there any century worse than the nineteenth? Sure life was more brutish, poor, and short back in the Stone Age, but times were so tough then it seems churlish to do anything but marvel at the general aptitude for … Continue reading
The Supreme Court, Gays, and the Death of Marriage
I stopped blogging about gay marriage a while ago because I had become tiresome on the subject. I was just reiterating the standard arguments in favor so what’s the point? I figure the current Supreme Court docket provides me a last … Continue reading
Pucker Up
One thing I have learned from the press coverage of all the recent political developments regarding gay marriage is that I don’t enjoy looking at pictures of same sex newlyweds kissing. Sure if I was a photo editor I’d run … Continue reading
Essentially American
For the sake of argument let’s say that there’s an ethnically Indian woman from Botswana who became an American citizen when she emigrated to the U.S. in her early adulthood. Let’s also suppose that she is from an educated background … Continue reading
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Plate Mail: Armor Class -9
Police showed up at the house in Kyle, Texas, today for completely pro forma non-confrontational reasons. One of them recognized me from a couple of weeks ago which, long story, but I’ve had a lot of interaction with the Kyle … Continue reading
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Propaganda, Professionalism, and Zero Dark Thirty
I have a fascination with procedurals about terrorism. I have watched The Baader Meinhof Complex and the miniseries Carlos three times each and have now gone to see Zero Dark Thirty in the theater twice. These movies have much of the … Continue reading
Martin Luther King Might Have Failed
There is no reason why the civil rights movement in the American South in the middle of the last century had to succeed. Any number of things might have gone wrong. Police clubs and fire hoses may have cowed the … Continue reading
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The More Things Change, 1850′s Edition
The best part of Moby Dick is the beginning, before the characters head out to sea, when it simply follows Ishmael and Queequeg as they amble around the east coast in the mid-19th century. On the opening pages, Ishmael imagines … Continue reading
No Memories of the Ford Administration
Proposed: Gerald Ford was the greatest American president of the past seventy years. But that’s crazy!–you might object. I couldn’t even name one thing Ford did. (Well, pardon Nixon. But I couldn’t name two.) For the presidents arrayed on either … Continue reading
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