Update: 8/18/2022. As I thought would happen, a school district in Texas has decided to remove the Diary of Anne Frank from their school libraries. In light of that, I am reposting this piece I wrote in February, not long after Holocaust Remembrance Day. I have also retitled it to “The Conversation of the Holocaust […]
When I was writing my post about Moby-Dick, I kept coming back to this little scene from M*A*S*H. This clip was posted to Twitter today by @ClassicMASH. This is Season Three, Episode 21, “Big Mac.” General MacArthur is scheduled to visit the 4077, and while the camp is all a-bustle with the preparations, Hawkeye and […]
I’m writing this on a bitterly cold January morning; temperatures hovering barely above zero and the wind chill factoring to about -15℉. My ten-minute walk to work left me with a wind-burned face and a nasty brain freeze. It is not conducive to a very optimistic mindset of grabbing the new year by its horns […]