YES, FOLKS, THE CONSERVATIVE RIGHT FAR AND NEAR NOW HAS MOVED IN TO STEAL THE THUNDER LONG THOUGHT THE MONOPOLY OF THE LEFT……MOVE OVER PETE SEEGER, WOODY AND ARLO GUTHRIE, PHIL OCHS, JUDY COLLINS, AND BRUCE COCKBURN. YOU HAVE COMPETITION…… (thanks to David Fenton, once again, for his on-the-spot vigour and perceptiveness!)
Folk Songs of the […]
…THEY’VE GOT TO PAY THE REFEREE!
Time was that the University of Southern California football team was composed of thugs, ne’er do wells, and fake students. Something bad was always happening to the men of Troy, save on the gridiron, where they tended to wax any and all comers. Along the way they made enemies through […]
CANINES ARE OUR BEST FRIENDS, SOMETIMES, AND SOMETIMES THEY DRIVE US TO DISTRACTION. BUT THEY KEEP US MOVING, THINKING, AND INNOVATING….TO KEEP UP. HERE, VIA A FRIEND IN UTAH, SOME MEDITATIONS ON “DOGS”………….
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I
want to go where they went.”
- Will Rogers
“We give dogs time we […]
Again, courtesy of the good David Fenton. My mother would never have let me post something like this, but then, times have changed a bit, and good taste was never my strong point. So, for a laugh, and to take some of the heat off of George W. Bush, let us return to the days […]
FROM THE STAID GUARDIAN (OBSERVER)
HAVING TAUGHT A COURSE ON DRUG WARS AND DRUG CULTURES, AND MADE SOME PREDICTIONS ABOUT THE WAYS IN WHICH “DRUGS” WILL ALTER OUR LIVES IN THE NEXT TWENTY-FIVE TO FIFTY YEARS, I COULD NOT RESIST THE FOLLOWING STORY FROM THE GUARDIAN……AS ALWAYS, COMMENTS WELCOME…..(YES, I AM TOLD THAT PT141 HAS […]
GIVEN THE FOCUS ON RACE AT QUEEN’S IN RECENT DAYS, NOT AT ALL COMPLIMENTARY, ONE GLIMPSES DEVELOPMENTS AT DUKE UNIVERSITY AS A POTENTIALPROBLEM ANYWHERE….NO, YOU SAY? PERHAPS NOT. BUT LET’S NOT REST ON OUR LAURELS–THERE ARE LESSONS TO BE LEARNED FROM CAUTIONARY TALES SUCH AS THIS……WHAT MIGHT ONE LEARN?
COMMENTS WELCOME
FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES
By […]
Read this carefully–it confronts the culture of denial that has dominated race-related questions at Queen’s University. The writer long has felt that a variant of polite racism, quiet and unacknowledged, has been at the core of Queen’s culture. A decade or so ago, the Berry Report made clear what the recent Henry Report reiterates. And […]