Saturday, January 16, 2021

Adult civics

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  Since the infamous Capitol Shtup of 1/6/21 I've seen -- and supported -- numerous calls for a return to the teaching of civics in our ...
Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Swealed in a barrie an liggin intil a heck

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  I've never much been one for dialect writing: the way some authors try to render speech phonetically, particularly when it's use...
Saturday, December 5, 2020

Deaf Diary

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I don't know who needs to hear this,  but I'm really quite deaf. Get it? Hear. Deaf. Haha. It's not as bad for me as it might be...
Monday, August 3, 2020

Suffrage, by Ellen Carol Dubois

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In the present climate of re-examining the appropriateness of certain types of monumental public art, one of the things that's said -- ...
Saturday, December 14, 2019

No flag waiver

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In her apparent bid to become the standard-bearer of the Trump legacy, former SC governor and UN ambassador Nikki Haley has chosen a likely...
Saturday, November 30, 2019

Mythified: Review of "Searching for Black Confederates" by Kevin Levin

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Sometimes before writing a book review I will check Goodreads for ones already written -- I don't want to repeat what somebody's ...
Sunday, November 17, 2019

Pyramid of hobbits: "The Secret of Our Success" by Joseph Henrich

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"Slow down," I tell my imagination while reading this book when my mind takes off on a wild tear about the near-future genetic im...
Monday, November 4, 2019

Ain't no crossroads in a rhododendron hell: The dilemma of Appalachian Studies

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Can I be an indigene? Pretty pretty please? These days that's all I want to be: an indigene, rooted and tuted. I want to identify, and ...