For as long as I can remember book recommendations, people have told me to read To The Lighthouse. And I have wanted to. I actually bought two different copies to prove how much I wanted to read the book. I had taken it to a trip to Orlando that I took at the beginning of the …
Month: September 2017
On September 22, 1692, the last persons were hanged in what became the United States for witchcraft. 19 people were hanged, 1 was pressed to death, 2 died in prison, and over 250 people were arrested. “After a number of the town’s teenagers began to hallucinate and convulse, bark like dogs and run around on …
Over the last weekend, my brother and sister-in-law came to visit. Dave and Amanda have not come down to see the house since we moved to Lexington. And that capped the whole family visiting us. Although it was a quick visit as they headed to a festival in Louisville, we were able to spend a …
Although the news has not been as focused on the disaster of Hurricane Maria, the people of Puerto Rico need us. National news and cable news focused on Houston for days. Fundraisers flooded our television because millions lost so much. Puerto Rico has over 3 millions Americans within its borders. I cannot say anything that is …
I first discovered Douglas Rushkoff when he wrote a comic book series called Testament. The book was decent idea-wise, beautiful art-wise, but did not really connect all of the dots. Nonetheless, I read Rushkoff’s articles whenever they appear and grabbed his recent book from 2013 a few years back. His main arguments centers on “presentism.” …
When you go to a small liberal arts college in rural America, a trip to Walmart, Kmart, or Target became a big adventure. Many weekend nights would include a ride to Appleton to shop. Since it was the early 2000s, I still had a VCR. But I did not use it to do anything besides …
When we face a judge and jury, we assume that we get a fair trial. It’s paramount to the American system. And one way to ensure this has been a fair judiciary. In United States v. Brandt, a circuit court judge wrote that a trial judge’s right to interrogate a witness was not unlimited. [H]e …
Justice William O. Douglas wrote that King Charles II adopted severe measures against noncomformists. One of those acts was the Conventicle Act of 1664. This forbade “conventicles” or religious assemblies of more than 5 people, outside of the Church of England. This act, part of the Clarendon Code, aimed to discourage nonconformism. One group raided …
In the middle of summer, I quit Facebook. Although I miss a few conversations and seeing some pictures of people, mentally, I’m in a much better place. Additionally, I wanted to spend the summer with a few hours away from a computer screen. I spend all day in front of a computer for work and …