Jack Burns Lives!

Marc Weingarten’s recent pontification concerning Postcards From Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast, screams for attention. He reminds me of a little child that throws toys across the room and stomps its feet until everyone turns around, looks and stops what they were doing.
Just a lot of unnecessary grandstanding.
The review is highly critical [...]

Happy birthday to Howard Zinn, who turns 85 today.
Howard is of course a leading intellectual and one of the great historians of this century. And like Chomsky, perhaps our greatest intellectual, a leading dissident and propagator of leftist thought in the United States.
But neither Zinn or Chomsky are getting any younger. Neither is [...]

If you’re looking at the map, I live in that orange area where Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas come together.
The heat and drought are bearing down in Mississippi Delta. Trees are dying, non-native plants (as they should) are dying, people are dying, and for yet another week, we have heat indices in the 105 to 110 [...]

I had the privilege of finding this fine specimen in the garden today. A Cooper’s Hawk, probably the one that’s been circling overhead the past few weeks and picking off Morning dove, sparrows and possibly a chipmunk.
We had a stray kitten hanging around for a couple of days, but I don’t think it took the [...]

Four Corners
September 14-16

My friend and fellow enviro-meddler Hayduke unintentionally spoiled my peaceful Saturday evening with this post about a return of the military draft. Not a topic I really care to think about while I’m trying to relax with a book and a glass of wine.
Should have stuck with the book and stayed off the Internet. Nobody’s [...]

The heat is upon us, bearing down on all life. The sparrows, chipmunks and squirrels rarely leave their dens, only in the mornings and evenings, when the blazing sun shrinks downward, behind the trees.
It’s 101º in the Delta today, and it could 106º on Monday.
Even the famously hot habanero bows to the prodigious heat.
Anyone [...]

Let us proclaim the mystery of faith. Christ has died. Christ has risen. Christ will come again.
So sayeth the Catholic priest at today’s funeral mass.
I had the misfortune of attending a funeral today. A full Catholic burial mass. If you’ve never been to one or aren’t familiar with Catholic rites and ceremony, it’s a [...]