Oct 20 2014

Memphis Blues Caravan

 

The Short Version

  The birth of the Memphis Blues Caravan occurred late one night in Steve LaVere’s music store in Memphis. LaVere and I had become acquainted through some dates I had booked for Furry Lewis. I had…  [more]

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Oct 19 2014

House to house, field to field

Elie Wiesel hides ethnic cleansing behind a prayer shawl

By , Oct. 17, 2014 1:16 AM   Much have I learned from gossip columns, which for reasons of propriety are also called “social columns.” Without them how would…  [more]

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Oct 19 2014

Crossing Central Avenue

        Dear Editor, I, too, would like to thank First Church of Nazarene (on lovely, picturesque, bench-free Central Avenue) for its field of little white crosses.  My first thought was that the miniature Flanders Fields was a…  [more]

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Oct 12 2014

Ghost story

  On the right-of-way of the New York Central Railroad, track-walkers, sand-house men, “shacks” and section-hands used to tell this ghost story of Lincoln’s funeral train.  So said the Albany Evening Times: “Regularly in the month of April, about midnight…  [more]

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Oct 08 2014

Prepared, preconceived and planned

From Pol Pot to ISIS: “Anything that flies on everything that moves”

By John Pilger, 8 October 2014   In transmitting President Richard Nixon’s orders for a “massive” bombing of Cambodia in 1969, Henry Kissinger said, “Anything that flies on…  [more]

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Sep 24 2014

I hate to besmirch ignorance

 

A really long response to a hateful email about Obama and Muslims

By Irene, Sunday, July 8, 2012   So, I got this email from my uncle. It’s one of those hateful chain mails that you usually just glance…  [more]

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Sep 23 2014

Sheer infantilisme

John Kerry’s rhetoric on Isis insults our intelligence and conceals the reality of the situation in Syria

By Robert Fisk, Sunday, 21 September 2014     John Kerry is becoming more and more like William McGonagall, the “worst poet in…  [more]

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