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The only reason the world was a better place during your childhood is because you were a child. – J.R. Rim. And now they have screwed that up. Barricaded Siblings Turn to TikTok While Defying Court Order to Return to Father They Say Abused Them A judge concluded the children were victims of “parental alienation,” which…
“We didn’t land on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock landed on us.” Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska. His mother was the National recording secretary for the Marcus Garvey Movement which commanded millions of followers in the 1920s and 30s. His father was a Baptist minister and chapter president…
Despite the fact that there were a lot of African-Americans playing in the National Football League in the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s, there was a stereotype that we weren’t capable of succeeding at certain positions. If you played those positions in college and you got drafted, you knew you were probably going to get moved…
“Wherever my mind led me, I would go.” Joseph Elmer Yoakum was an American self-taught painter. He was of African-American and possibly of Native American–descent, and was known for his landscape paintings in the outsider art-style. He was seventy-six (76) – dates vary, but going with that – when he started to record his memories in the…
The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. – David Foster Wallace This Day In History Infinite Jest is published (February 1,1996) Wallace wrote about television…
I’m assiduously critical of people who want to start their American Dream and that journey and want to start it the wrong way. I think like this: the United States was created on immigration, it was created on immigration, on diversity. I strongly encourage people who want to come here to do it. But I…
Everything I know about morality and the obligations of men, I owe it to football [soccer]. – Albert Camus Soccer. Futbol (Headball?): A Critique by Tim McGarry The 2022 World Cup in Qatar was recently completed with Argentina defeating France. Pele, recognized as the world’s greatest player, died on December 22, 2022. It is called…
“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” Most of what follows is not true. By ‘true’, I mean real. When Ronald DeSantis talks about ‘freedom’, he doesn’t mean the word like you think. You are free to do whatever Ronald thinks is right for you to do. Don’t try to…
You would think life couldn’t possibly get more bizarre year after year after year after year. Written about weirdness myself for decades now. See https://www.jackdogwelch.com/?p=1407 This material is from 2017. Lost track during the Pandemic, which continues here in MAGA country. Five more dead this week. Part of normal life and they snicker right in our…
We celebrate the birth of one who told us to give everything to the poor by giving each other motorized tie racks. — Bill McKibben To all of my neighbors. I don’t mean to be a Grinch, however…. to those of you who decorate your yards for Christmas, would you please avoid anything that has…