Flying a Confederate Flag is a Poke in the Eye
2015-06-25 – When folks folks tell me they don’t mean anything racist when they display the Confederate flag, I believe them. Some of the time. There’s no doubt about the […]
Tag Archives: Culture
My Dog Lefty Self-Identifies as a Beaver
2015-06-18 – My dog Lefty gnaws on trees. I am not kidding. In his youth he gnawed the bark off one tree in our backyard from the ground up to six […]
Every Day Is Opposite Day! (No it Isn’t!)
2015-06-14 – We seem to be living a never-ending Opposite Day—you know: the time when you try to say or do the opposite of everything I say or do. I […]
Social Pressure: Churches and Gangs
2015-06-11 – It seems that former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is being tagged with advice from his own book. Back in 1995 he wrote a chapter called “The Restoration of […]
Revenge Is Not Enough
2015-06-09 – The saga of the Duggar family and their wayward son comes at the intersection of at least two of my cultural blind spots. I don’t follow reality TV […]
Air Travel Humanidity
2015-06-07 – When did air travel get so awful? Yes, I know. It’s been a gradual process. I loved to fly back in the 1970s. We used to go to […]
Eating in a Strange Place
2015-05-31 – My son Cal left yesterday for a summer internship at Axelle Editions in New York. This will be a great opportunity for him as a young artist to learn […]
The Turing Test
2015-05-21 – We all know about the Turing Test, don’t we? If you are not sure, let me tell you what it is. It is a test of a machine’s […]
Andy’s Obituary Got 171 Likes.
2015-05-19 – Andy’s obituary got 171 likes. Okay, I don’t really know anyone named Andy who recently died. But you know what I mean. You put a death notice on […]
Science Can End Racism
2015-05-14 – Back in the Sixties I read a book called Black Like Me by a journalist by the name of John Howard Griffin. The book recounted the white author’s […]
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