My own school closing down, I spent my last three years of high school in another coal camp a few miles up the creek. I had many adventures there since I was still a virgin in 9th Grade and my home…
Category: Famous Commn People
Famous Common Places I Have Known, Ma Martin’s on North Lime
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…
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…