May 2018 Monthly Archive

Decoration Day 1871: Frederick Douglass at Arlington National Cemetery, Near the Monument to the “Unknown Loyal Dead”

Frederick Douglass

“If we ought to forget a war which has filled our land with widows and orphans; which has made stumps of men of the very flower of our youth; which has sent them on the journey of life armless, legless, maimed and mutilated; which has piled up a debt heavier than a mountain of gold, swept uncounted thousands of men into bloody graves and planted agony at a million hearthstones — I say, if this war is to be forgotten, I ask, in the name of all things sacred, what shall men remember?”

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Monday, May 28, 2018 |

@ Rachael Denhollander

Friday, May 25, 2018 |

“These men know (and can prove) that Mr. Jones, from his place of work, accessed a website”

These men know (and can prove) that Mr. Jones, from his place of work, accessed a website (let us call it Bikini Bimbos.com), and was on that web site for 45 seconds. And so the data wonk says, “J’accuse.” Left out is the fact that he did so because Mrs. Jones, having just caught their Billy on the same site at their home computer, called her husband, and asked him to see how bad it was. Or contrariwise, remembering the condition our world is in, Mr. Jones might have just been sinning.
Douglas Wilson

Diane Langberg, PhD

Thursday, May 24, 2018 |

Bob Dylan: “Ballad of a Thin Man”

“There ought to be a law against you comin’ around”

Infidels

  Bonus track: “Man of Peace” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMdLpYdiYrU

Thursday, May 24, 2018 |

The Life of Martin Jackson: A Mother’s Day Post

drowning

“My mother was drowned years before when I was a little boy. I only remember her after she was dead. I can take you to the spot in the river today where she was drowned. She drowned herself. I never knew the reason behind it, but it was said she started to lose her mind and preferred death to that.” Continue reading

Sunday, May 13, 2018 |