I want to add my contribution to the many great bloggers writing about being in the 47% entitled, victim-hood and moocher club. I though I was finished with it but I want to give my education version.I wanted to go to college. My family encourage me to get a good job. That isn't why I wanted to go to college. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to know things and people beyond my neighborhood.Every book, every great movie and every in-depth news story I read growing up told me I could settle for less or get that book learning. So yes....
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Saturday, September 15, 2012
There is a part of me that wants me to "do something". There is a section of my brain that is saying "chill". I can't handle the outrage of the day and the cruelty of humans while I'm fighting off this cold I caught last week.The days are piling up but this unhappy camper needs to step back and just be a rank and file human being. More rank cuz I've been hacking up a bunch of dis-comfortable internal matter. When I was a kid, I did the number about how old I'd be at this time. I hoped for flying cars. Weekend trips to Mars. Walking through...
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Maybe this should have been posted on the library blog but I think this Robert Penn Warren audio archive has a resonance beyond libraries collections. I've been reading the transcripts of some of the recordings. Some of narrative is a challenging read.Not because of the subject matter. It is because much of what these people experienced is being re-vamped for this time. The Voter ID Card/Poll Tax obstacle course is but one example.http://whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.eduAuthor...
Saturday, September 1, 2012
I was that kid in the front row chomping down on popcorn during the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. There he was, Clint Eastwood, 10 feet tall blasting the hell out of somebody so some poor folks could stop cowering in fear about the weekly desperado coming to loot up the joint.My desperados were closer to home. It helped to know some body was doing something about it even if it was in Italy.Clint Eastwood has made really great movies. It is not...
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