"A perfect storm of ignorance and enthusiasm." That quote, attributed to a former CIA official who courageously remains anonymous, seems about as perfectly succinct a crystallization I've yet read regarding…
On June 9, 1954, Army counsel Joseph N. Welch confronted Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy during the Senate-Army Hearings over McCarthy's attack on a member of Welch's law firm, Frederick G.…
The clothesline heard 'round the world Twenty-five years ago. Long enough to officially make it a classic. But, of course, it was a classic even as it was being…
When I first read John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley: In Search of America I was a freshman in high school and not yet old enough to drive. Still, I felt…
The sand people always ride single file to hide their numbers... There is only one possible response to this picture:
While I could appreciate where Quentin Tarantino was coming from with Kill Bill and the ways he dutifully pays homage to old school pop culture icons, there were a couple…
Word to the wise: get on board the Vieux Farka Touré bandwagon now. Not so you can be hip or prepared to drop his name at a cocktail party (for…
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