Censoring Mark Twain and Harper Lee? February 8, 2018 The DNT’s story on our Administration pulling Huckleberry Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird out of our curriculum made it to the Washington Post… Continue Reading
PBS’s Vietnam, Episode 4 September 21, 2017 I will write this later. I’m spending my day passing out lit door to door. I’ll just note the jarring sight of a confederate… Continue Reading
Minnesota not so nice August 23, 2017 CBS reports that an organization called Wall Street 24/7 Minnesota is the second most unequal state in the Union just behind Wisconsin. In Duluth… Continue Reading
Mankato, another Minnesota town with some history June 19, 2017 A few weeks ago an old acquaintance from Mankato, where I graduated from high school in 1969, asked me to write up a post… Continue Reading
Keen on Kuehn June 19, 2017 Photo by: Bob King / rking@duluthnews.com I was pleased to see this picture on the anniversary of Duluth’s infamous lynching because one of the… Continue Reading
Ripped (off) from the headlines April 20, 2017 I twitted Wrenshall a couple posts ago so this post might be viewed as excessive harassment which I don’t mean to inflict. However, that… Continue Reading
Indian ghosts April 17, 2017 I just keep adding more books to my reading list. The lastest is Killers of the Flower Moon. I’ve been catching reports on Public… Continue Reading
Why I haven’t succumbed to paranoia – a last thought March 22, 2017 Its because of Seth Meyers, Jon Stewart, Samantha Bee, Colbert etc. For the time being late night television and many other sources give me… Continue Reading
Getting a swim and a trim February 3, 2017 One of the big 15 minutes stories of this summer’s Olympics was the black female swimmer who won gold. Unlike Gymnastics’s, Simone Byles, who… Continue Reading
My first march since 1973 January 17, 2017 I don’t do marches. My last two were during Vietnam. As a Freshman in 1969 I was one of many students who blocked the… Continue Reading
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery January 17, 2017 or is it? I stopped reading my email a couple days ago when I got this subject heading: “YOU ARE A RACIST, HARRY” It… Continue Reading
About the “N” word. I mean it! January 14, 2017 My reply to a friend who ignored my request not to use of the “N word in the emails sent to me: ***********, I… Continue Reading
Robert Rowe Gilruth – Duluth Central Grad 1931 January 8, 2017 Kevin Costner plays a “composite” of the technicians in charge of America’s Space Race in his portrayal of the mythical “Al Harrison” in the… Continue Reading
“That’s a word I don’t like one damned bit.” January 8, 2017 Yesterday a friend sent me a pointed message about an issue completely unrelated to the subject of this post. He then put in a… Continue Reading
The Big Short January 6, 2017 I put this movie in my memory bank over the last year when some economic analyst on NPR gave it a big thumbs up…. Continue Reading
Loving December 16, 2016 I thought I was much younger when I read this story in our family’s copy of Life Magazine but it came out when I… Continue Reading
Bleeding Kansas December 16, 2016 This is one of my Mother’s paintings. Its called “Lilly White Town.” She painted it to symbolize the new world we had moved to… Continue Reading
Thank you Dr. Conniff… November 21, 2016 …for reading my blog. Thank you also for taking part in an important public conversation…….. I have submitted this piece in its entirety to… Continue Reading
More on interning Muslims for the nation’s security November 17, 2016 Our good friend just posted the link to the NY Times story about the potential internship of Muslims. She has an adopted Korean child… Continue Reading
“THROWING GREASE ON THE FIRE” November 15, 2016 As I indicated in my email to my Buddy the election last week has opened Pandora’s box with lots of noisome, nasty, dance on… Continue Reading
