(This post is cross-published here on Narrative Paths Journal) Last week I fielded a query from the University of Tennessee campus newspaper about legacies of 9/11/2001. Its reporter asked: “How did 9/11 strengthen or weaken the religious faith of Americans? How did it change the way people think about mortality, evil, and hope? In what … Continue reading Hegemonic Half-Truths: Why 9/11 Did Not Necessarily Strengthen the Religious Right in the Long Run
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This Music Needs to Go Viral Right Now
Just heard this new music on Sirius Radio's Outlaw Country station. This is what music needs to be now. Thank you, Buddy and Julie! P.S. They also made this timely message which goes with my earlier post about drinking bleach. MBE standard notice: The time I spend on this blog is not in addition to a … Continue reading This Music Needs to Go Viral Right Now
Injecting Bleach or Ingesting Beach—Inquiring Minds Want to Know
I’m writing this quick note after reading a New York Times piece and reader’s thread about Trump’s suggestion to combat coronavirus by “injecting” a form of bleach as a sort of "cleansing” (now walked back to supposedly being “sarcastic” which seems a little worse than sincerity). I noticed on cable TV as this story was … Continue reading Injecting Bleach or Ingesting Beach—Inquiring Minds Want to Know
The Death of My Old Hometown: Sucking Out the Wealth, Filling the Gap with Fecal Pollution
Last summer, on a road trip between Minneapolis to Kansas City, I passed through a small town in Iowa where I lived from age two to five. Here is a picture I took. I have few personal memories of my early years, and almost all of them are filtered through home movies that I watched … Continue reading The Death of My Old Hometown: Sucking Out the Wealth, Filling the Gap with Fecal Pollution
