I'm giving up officially. On politics. Specifically, American politics.
I was raised in what my mother regularly called "a Democratic kitchen" in the South, by parents who had been Roosevelt Democrats. My father cast his first vote as a 21...
In this interview, Loewen links the Civil War era to the later era known as the Nadir of Race Relations (1890-1940), and further, to the modern day Neo-Confederate movement, which tends to look amazingly like it's twin brother...the Tea Party.
Join me vicariously for another desktop vacation. In this installment I share my photos from around the Chesapeake Bay.
When the only thing that's enough is too much...
So I'm out on my driveway washing my car last weekend, when my neighbor walks by. He is an old Chinese guy in his late 90s. I see him often, making his way to the corner and back, a...
The man on the motorcycle is dead. He was twenty-two, a motorcycle enthusiast, murdered and from Puerto Rico. His wish was to be embalmed and posed this way and his wish, like the wish of another murdered twenty-four year...
I. History of Nowruz
Imagine it’s the fifth century before the Common Era, on a plain bejeweled with a magnificent palace complex and flowing gardens, with the coffee brown Zagros mountains in the distance, and a sky the color of...
I thought God might be pleased with the Texas education board putting him into their textbooks (he likes to try to stay ahead of Paris Hilton in popularity) but he instead asked me to publish this blog for Him:
Okay,...
Texas has just officially doomed generations of their children to ignorance and being oddities in their grasp of history and reality...because neither of those items supported the political views of conservatives and Republicans.
I normally keep my quotes to a...
Holi (pronounced ho-lee), also known as Phagwa, is marked at the transition from the Hindu months Phalguna to Chaitra. The Hindu calendar being lunisolar, this date changes every year. In 2010 it fell on March 1st. Besides India, Nepal...
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