Here, coffin that slowly passes, I give you my sprig of lilac. (Nor for you, for one alone, Blossoms and branches green to coffins all I bring, For fresh as the morning, thus would I chant a song for you O sane and sacred death. All over bouquets of roses, O death, I cover you […]
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Regular readers of my Academic Redneck columns know I was spot-on in my belief that Donald Trump would win the presidency. I was also confident Trump would not be found guilty of any crime related to “collusion” with Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign. I’ve argued that if Democrats and their allies didn’t let go
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Sliding into the reclining chair, I notice Animal Planet on the ceiling-mounted television. Some man wielding a tranquilizer gun has taken down an Alaskan bull moose. I’m almost drawn in, but the hygienist, garbed in germless gloves and goggles politely requests I open wide so she can descend down my masticating mineshaft to scrape, sandblast,
Every year, people debate whether stores should close on Thanksgiving and Christmas so retail workers can spend time with their families. I don’t feel qualified to weigh in on that issue. I’m just grateful that doctors, nurses, nursing home CNAs, and first responders report for duty, pilots and flight attendants still fly the (often not-so)
(In honor of Veterans Day and the 100th anniversary the armistice ending the Great War I, I publish the WWI diary of Albert J. Ebert. The late Mr. Ebert was my husband’s grandfather and served in France in 1918 and 1919. He enlisted in the navy but found himself in the trenches pulling infantry duty.
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We are living in a feminist dystopia. Nobody has more independent woman street cred than yours truly, the Academic Redneck. I traveled the world by myself in my twenties. I waited to marry until I was in my mid-thirties. Now in my fifties, I am child-free by choice. I never had an abortion, but I
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