Congressional Mid-Term Elections: An Anagram Poem
Sad ads Stoic lip politics Aspirant partisan More piss promises
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Battleground Schools: The Little Rock Nine and the Fight for Desegregation
In Honor of Black History Month After last week’s horrific mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, it’s tempting to romanticize the past and imagine that obtaining an education was once not as dangerous of a proposition as it is now. However, the young people who led the charge to desegregate
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The Academic Redneck Fitness Challenge: Update 7
Previous Weight Loss (November 28, 2016-January 1, 2018): 25.6 pounds Weight Loss (January 1-February 5, 2018) 2 pounds Total Weight Loss (November 28, 2016-February 5, 2018) 27.6 pounds Well, the weight loss isn’t much to crow about, but at least I’m going in the right direction again. I seem to be pretty lazy and lackadaisical
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Heir to Springsteen: Eric Church and the American Psyche
I teach a college course called United States History Since 1945. It’s a fun class because the students and I get to reflect on U.S. social, political, economic, and military history of the last seventy odd years. It’s one of those classes where I can show the hilarious episode of I Love Lucy called “Job
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A Boy’s Gift: On the Building of Welcome Church, Summer 1943
(for Burtis Dorning) But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. John 4: 14 As fearless farm boys crossed an ocean to fight and die in a war
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