For those of you blissfully unaware, the savior of Golden Eagles’ football faces a dilemma of whether to return to the Land of Cheese and pacify both his flock and his folly. Brett Favre, known in these parts first for…
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Category: Southern Scene
Sign o’ the Apocalypse
A Progressive Southerner
Somehow missed posting this, but in February a UNC-Greensboro professor commented on a Progressive ‘Southerner.’ Considering the material covers the re-release of a 1909 book titled “The Southerner,” don’t guess it’s too dated. http://www.uncg.edu/ure/news/stories/2008/feb/Southerner021808.htm
American Democracy Project Encourages Civic Participation
As Super Tuesday looms, commentators question whether younger participants might make a difference in the next general election. Many contend younger participants must get involved in the process for democracy to truly work, but younger voters historically refuse to vote…
Saving The Jena Six
A Guest Commentary by Michael Ford CROSSETT, Ark. (Sept. 20) – With incidents like the recent ones in Jena, La., the South deserves its reputation as being the most racist region of the United States. Any white person that hangs…
Refusing to Evolve
A Guest Commentary by Michael Ford CROSSETT, Ark. (Sept. 15) – A study published this week in Nature Neuroscience and reviewed in Slate Magazine verifies something most intellectuals already knew: Liberals are smarter than conservatives. “In a rapid response test—you…
It’s A Black and Tan World
Not Black and White Under the Microscope by Glynn Wilson BIRMINGHAM, Ala., June 10 – There is a famous story about editors at the New York Times I learned while working with the elite of the elite a few years…
One Night at the White Water
NORTH LITTLE ROCK (June 1) – Believe it or not, I still get out to live music on occasion. Just not as much as I’d like. Two weeks ago, I missed the Towncraft festival. I really wanted to catch the…
Krystal Ball: It’s Thompson vs. Gore in ‘08
Connecting the Dots by Glynn Wilson As I woke up and smelled the coffee this morning and consulted the wires, the polls and Krystal Ball, it became obvious already what’s going to happen in the Presidential election of 2008. So…
‘The Tudors’ Exposes Monarchy as Corrupt
Under the Microscope by Glynn Wilson The spring bird migration seems to be over now, the grosbeaks have moved on north and the mosquitoes have finally arrived, along with the dreaded need for air conditioning – a great invention that…