Rick Wilson’s really poor affectation of hillbilly mannerisms and slang put me in mind of one of my fondest memories of my college days, a bar on the other side of Lexington, Kentucky where I went to university, 1964-1971, before…
Category: Famous Commn People
A Brief Natural History of Historians; Telling a Horse from a Mule
While people are being hornswoggled about the good intentions of journalists, they also should consider similar intentions of some historians. You see, there are the historians who report insights and facts about the past, and there are the journalists who then bake these into confections using their own…
Protecting “Democracy in America” from Hot-Tub Socialists
Gunnar Myrdal was a Swedish Nobel Prize academician who was many thing to many people; social scientist, economist, and classic social liberal of the 1940s and 50s. So far as I know, however, he had nothing to do with the…
Mrs Brophy and the Ring Dang Doo
I’ve told stories of my mountain home before, and also stories about the differences between racial feelings about blacks and whites in the South and in the North at the time of Martin Luther King. We had two major coal towns living side by…