I feel a twinge of guilt using Terri Shiavo as my lead in this piece. The poor woman has been exploited by the Republicans, the anti-abortionists, lawyers, clerics, and…
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POPULAR CULTURE & SOCIAL LIFE
Why did I do it!? After many abstemious years and I light-up like country singer who just lost his truck and his girl. Why!? I knew if…
Arthur Miller died the day before Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. Is coincidence alone any reason for reflection on the lives of these two men? There’s the physical resemblance: both…
These days, with so much information and opinion available online, I have pared my magazine subscriptions down to a half-dozen. But there was in need of a twelve-step program…
Much has been made (a lot of it money) of the supremacy of videogames over Hollywood movies. Sales of videogames exceed movie receipts by one third. So we…
World War I was supposed to be “the war to end all wars”. Then there was World War II. Both conflicts were responsible for thousands of books, movies…
John Kerry and George Bush are contending for the hearts and minds of America’s electorate. But that battle also has its regional dimension, with some general divisions of support…
There was a time when heroes were people of the exceptional character and behavior. Heroes emerge early in recorded history; Achilles and Odysseus, Moses and David, for example, but…
The “call of the islands” is a compelling summons to the romantic soul. There is no doubt in my mind than an aspect of this curious regard for traveling…
There are other approaches to communing with Nature than by the Xtreme Sportsman’s bravado of showing it “who’s the boss.” Dominating Nature, if it is ever achievable, is a…