Lately I seem to be annoyed by the drumbeat of inane corporate slogans that these days seemed to be added to every commercial announcement or ad. This morning, on KPBS…
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POPULAR CULTURE & SOCIAL LIFE
I don’t run my life according to too many rules, which might have something to do with my first rule, which is Don’t have too many rules (perhaps…
Whew! I actually wrote that. Where was the bolt of lightening? Actually, the great avenging deity might have understood that I wasn’t calling down his omnipotent wrath upon my country,…
There was a time when people went through life ever knowing what they looked like. Imagine that (well, you would have to, but probably couldn’t). That’s why Narcissus had to…
Back around the late 1800s, when swords were still were still the sidearm choice of “open-carry” and not mere decorations, when soldiers (officer class) hung out with their regiments in…
This is hardly the first time I have engaged the subject of homosexuality in these pages, and it probably won’t be the last. [See, from the DCJ Archives Nos. 2.4,…
Since I have been unsuccessful in finding any ancient Romans to chat with I have long felt the urge to put to use those four years of Latin I slogged…
If you have been following the early stages of the dramatic hoax of celebrated Notre Dame linebacker Manti T’eo, you, like I, might be a little suspicious of the front…
“Such a great clatter the gods make,” goes an old saying, “when they fall.” Indeed, this might well be, were it not for the fact that this was also the…
Random thoughts on Veterans Day Every Veterans Day gets me thinking about four of my late uncles who served in World War II, two of them in combat in North Africa, Italy, and Burma.…