I’d like to apologize for my absence.
Late last year, I had a death in my immediate family and my Muse left me and I’ve been silent these many months.
However, as they say, life is for the living and life goes on. I’m back and I’ll start posting to this site. I’ve always had a lengthy […]
The biggest demonstration I’ve personally witnessed had nothing to do with Vietnam, civil rights or the Gulf wars.
It everything to do with cable TV and the Chicago Cubs.
It happened several years ago. At the time, there were only two cable TV companies in the nation, and they were — and still are — giants. In […]
I don’t know if it’s still there but there used to be a large barn along Kansas state highway K-4, a wind-swept two-lane highway running east-west beside what was a Union Pacific main line between the two small towns of Hoisington and Claflin.
The barn was perched on what passes for a higher hill along the […]
After saying “a thousand times no,” the board of directors of Dow Jones agreed it would be a good idea to sell the Wall Street Journal, that paragon of the American corporate system, to Rupert Murdoch, that paragon of the American corporate system.
The Bancroft family, who controlled most of the shares of Dow Jones, also […]
Eric A. Blair, one of the greatest reporters of the 20th century and may be of all time, was born 104 years ago today, June 25, in Great Britain.
You know him by his pseudonym — George Orwell.
You’ve probably read many of his books and essays; “1984″ and “Animal Farm” defined the 20th century and […]
