Little West and big Boston
There is class distinction apparent in the media coverage of the explosions last week in two American cities....marathon runners are a whole different bunch of people compared to fertilizer plant...
View Article600 year old finger
People are laughing and sort of appalled by the American tourist who touched the ancient Annuciation statue in Florence,and caused it's finger to break. I have a background in art history, and felt...
View ArticleThe Appalling Oklahoma Satanist Statue
I am quite disappointed by the design of the proposed Oklahoma Satanist statue. It looks to me like something out of a comic book or like a 19thC English engraving. I would rather have seen a nice low...
View ArticleExene Cervenka- can this be true?
I've been getting e mails this morning about Exene Cervenka, telling me to look at her internet posts. They are really upsetting. She's on the "truther" side now about the mass murder in California....
View ArticleGuns in my Library
I spent a bit of time earlier yesterday reading "Man with a gun-call 9-1-1" here. I nodded to myself and recc'd it, a fine idea followed by mostly worthwhile comments. Now it's 12:50 AM. I have just...
View ArticleWho insures police departments?
I constantly read about huge payouts to citizens who have been harmed by police, or to the families of those who have been killed. "The police admitted no wrongdoing, but a civil suit was settled out...
View ArticleThe word "thug" legitmized
I am disappointed in the President for using the word "thug" in his comments about Ferguson. And I am disappointed that he admonished protestors to be peaceful and behave in a lawful manner, but did...
View ArticleRosebud hits the big time
Little Rosebud, Missouri, welcomed the justice marchers from Ferguson with melons, fried chicken, and confederate flags today. Cursing and threatening the twenty marchers, they showed the world what...
View ArticleBookstore racism
I go from the border here up to Odessa every three months- it's the nearest big city, about 250 miles. I get supplies, tools, get things repaired, spend the whole day there. One of the things I enjoy...
View ArticleJennings MO, a knife, a bible, a death
My partner just walked into the room, "It happened again". Makes my heart sink, again. I just happened to be wearing a t shirt with names of unarmed black Americans killed by police...
View ArticleThe supremes' decision and the past
I have been thinking all day, after the court decision, about three men: William S. Burroughs, Michael Shepard, and an anonymous cowboy from here in the Texas borderlands. I have always like Burroughs,...
View ArticleAnti-vaxxers in 1882
In 1882 Dr.Henry F. Hoyt was head of the Department of Health in St. Paul, Minnesota. I enjoy reading memoirs from the 19th century, and found his comments on smallpox interesting. Two cases of the...
View ArticlePicked a Black Lives Matter fight with the sheriff, it looks like.
Couple months ago we put up those familiar black and white signs, on our house gate and on the gate to my corrals. We live in a little west Texas cow/ border/ tourist village of 400 people.That very...
View ArticleAmerica's turned against the...
Last night there was another arson attack against a mosque in Houston. Every day there is more hatred expressed toward American Muslims. Our “leaders” guide the haters. It’s hard for me to admit that...
View ArticleBilly Faire is checking out.
There may be old time musicians here who remember my neighbor, Billy Faire. He has been a musician all his life.Now he’s hitting the end of the road. His friends are taking care of him.I just walked...
View ArticleMartin Luther King Day didn't work here.
My partner is the sub postmaster in this little village in the west Texas desert. Early last month she came to work and found taped to the door a hand written sign saying, “We will be closed for Martin...
View ArticleOn la frontera, five years ago.
In 2011 we had a pretty cold winter here in the Texas desert. On morning I was up fixing some fences and noticed my asses intently watching something at the corner of my land. I walked around the barn...
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