Okay, this initial bit is a scenario: I’m at the keyboard, just finished what feels like a pretty good blog post. Pressing Return to upload it, I hear a strange noise on my left. That’s my foggy side, a fuzzy mist since the 2019 stroke. So I wheel around, to face the bookshelves against the wall … Continue reading I Now Know What Happens After We Die. (And Even How Hot Hell Is.)
[NOTE: It’s been a dry summer for cartoons in the New Yorker. The current issue is better. But it’s a very tough time for humorists.] Next it will be kale . . . What balance? … Continue reading Cartoons — No Royalty, No overt politics . . .
[NOTE: Many supporters of the 1960s civil rights struggles in Alabama long referred to Birmingham, its largest city, as “Bombingham,” because of a long string (as many as fifty) of racist bombings and other attacks of homes and churches associated with the movement. Most remain unsolved. The most notorious of these attacks was the bombing … Continue reading Fifth Little Girl in ‘63 Birmingham Bombing Still Seeks Justice
Lawsuit over Confederate monument dismissed Isaac Groves — Sept. 15, 2022 Burlington Times-News USA TODAY NETWORK The Confederate monument in front of the Alamance County Historic Courthouse will stay where it is after a superior court judge, in that same courthouse, dismissed a lawsuit from the NAACP demanding its removal – at least for now. … Continue reading Confederate Monument Removal: Win Some, Lose Some
AP News: ‘Woman King,’ Viola Davis and the culmination of a struggle BY JAKE COYLE — Sept. 13, 2022 TORONTO (AP) — When Viola Davis, sculpted and hardened from months of training, first stood in the full garb of the Agojie warrior women, with her bare feet in the African sand, it was the culmination of … Continue reading Viola Davis Stars in new film, “The Woman King”