How the Irish Became White (book review)
another slice of American history by Noel Ignatiev
The Wind and the Lion (1975)
heroic, the way it was…(movie review)
Book review: Girl with a Pearl Earring
Tracy Chevalier’s bucket of love about Vermeer’s painting…
Guess who wasn’t coming to dinner…
Not too many black doctors actually showed up for dinner in 1967…
“…an era of corruption in High Places…”
Old Abe got it right….
Hand me that hammer…
building bridges is a good thing (my poem)
“…and dipped in folly…”
only Poe knows how to say it…
“…the ravell’d sleeve of care…”
wish I’d said that…(a bit of Shakespeare)
No one remembers “The Six Grandfathers”
…except the Lakota Sioux
“Boil up” and other good manners…
The “Hobo Ethical Code” is worth a quick read.