Category Archives: Guns in the U.S. of A.

I’ve amped up my hunger for vengeance

I finished The Count of Monte Cristo — oddly at the exact moment he and his ploys finished off all his enemies. This was good. So what now? A need for bloody violence was roiling in my gut and precisely … Continue reading

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What’s doing in education? Other than…

More than I thought. Thanks to Harper’s Weekly Review… Disney announced it would include an avowedly Christian character in its series about a middle school softball team, a substitute teacher in Florida was arrested for encouraging students to fight one … Continue reading

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We need a marching song. The Chicks provide.

It’s “March, March,” from the Chicks’ 2020 album, “Gaslighter.” Written and performed by an impressive musical collective,* it’s fierce and female, a percussive, insinuating, syncopated chant in the minor key we all need now. It’s a new civil war, and … Continue reading

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