Livin’ in the USA
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This lengthy piece in The Atlantic by Ta-Nehisi Coates, "The Case for Reparations," is getting a good bit of attention, and deservedly so. Coates (I wonder how his first name is pronounced) is an intelligent and thoughtful man, and I think he makes a pretty strong moral case for reparations from the U.S. government to the
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I've posted these before, but it's been awhile. I don't have any new ones. We went to a couple of parades this year, but got no really good pictures. Mardi Gras is essentially over for me, though it's only Tuesday afternoon. I do hope to have some really self-indulgent meal this evening–maybe fried chicken. My
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Marcus L. Urann, the inventor of canned jellied cranberry sauce. I love this stuff. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. The story is actually pretty interesting from the socio-economic as well as the gustatory perspective. I didn't know that Ocean Spray is and has been from the start a growers' cooperative.
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Read the excerpt from the Dear Abby piece at the top of the page. (Click to enlarge if you can't make it out.)
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The more I think about the conclusion of that "Eleven Nations" piece (see previous post), the more it bothers me. What makes it so troubling is that it envisions no other outcome to the national conflict than having one side crush the other. This reveals something about the thinking of contemporary liberals. I doubt you
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This has been getting some attention for several days now: a sort of cultural map of the U.S. based on the varying cultures of origin of current inhabitants. The first thing I noticed is that it conforms to what I was saying in a discussion with Art Deco a few weeks ago about the culture
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We have AT&T's voicemail service instead of an answering machine, and it sends me an email message whenever someone leaves a message. I got this one a little while ago: A non-urgent voice message was just received from "CHRIST THE KING, tel: 2516262343"
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Everybody makes fun of the ostentatious tacky tail-finned cars of the 1950s. And with good reason. 1958 Chrysler Imperial But this is just as bad, though in a different way. It’s certainly every bit as ostentatious. 2013 Cadillac Escalade “Truck” The whole “Sport” “Utility” Vehicle thing has been annoying for a long time, though at
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Here is a vision of how the automobile would change the world, as seen in the Illustrated World of May, 1922. It's easy to laugh at a lot of this: "There can be no slums in the future." But really, when you take away the naive gosh-it's-wonderful tone, and the irony of the predictions of
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On my commute to work on the western side of Mobile, I have a choice of going through the older part of town or taking I-10 and I-65 around it. My extensive research shows that the route through town, though shorter in distance, takes an average of five minutes longer. So since I'm usually late,
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