Society
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: Society
Dammit! Jim Crow is supposed to be moribund! He ain't close to dead. He's alive and kickin' in Northern California's wine country.
Jim Crow never did reside exclusively in the South. From the decade of the 1930s, throughout the rest of the last century, this writer ran into him all over the United States proper, as well as the extra-continental territories – wherever was flown the Stars and Stripes. Jim Crow is not static; he is very flexible. He could be described as a changeling. Depending upon circumstances, Jim Crow can adapt his sex, personality, attire or any other factor about him, to fit the moment. For the case at hand, he takes the form of an officious female maître d' on a wine-sipping train tour through California's Napa Valley.
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: Society
Aboard a Train à Grande Vitesse,
A single gunman lurked.
- Written by: Patrick Julius
- Category: Society
JDN 2457258 EDT 17:59.
William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Android: Netrunner, Blade Runner, Deus Ex and Shadowrun. Cyberpunk is one of the most venerable subgenres of science fiction, both one of the oldest and one of the most popular.
- Written by: Rosa Jiménez
- Category: Society
Well, at first I didn’t plan, as many in this world, to be a Teacher/Professor when I was at the Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV) getting my Science degree in Math many years ago. One of the primary things to accomplish was to figure out or find out what the purpose of my life was. However, in those undergraduate years I said to myself that if I had to teach, I would like to travel first around the world to collect experiences to give support to whatever I had to teach. Also, since there was no one in my family with a complete school degree, I have had to learn all of this process of becoming an academic professional by myself.
- Written by: Deborah Baron
- Category: Society
"I will not hear it." Maya Angelou. What she is referring to is 'hate'. She refused to listen to it. I have thought about her words and they roll around in my head since I first heard her say it in the interview video from Academy of Achievement several years ago; the full quote is below. I am now in my 50's and I will be the first one to tell you I haven't always been kind or thoughtful. I have spread around some poison in my life and I deeply regret it. Regret it, but am not letting it hold me back from being better in the future. It would be nice if we could all do that, strive to be better in the future. Melvin Udall, played by Jack Nicholson, says to Helen Hunt, "You make me want to be a better man" in the movie "As Good as it Gets". Maybe we can all strive to be better, even if it is a small bit, even if it takes us the rest of our lives. We can stay stuck in our misery or we can have our tiny space a better place than it was yesterday because of our own actions.
- Written by: Tom Hedges
- Category: Society
Big game hunters – those days are over. O-V-E-R. Didn't you get the Memo?
Guess I better make it a little clearer from my point of view.
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: Society
Poor Tommy's quite deflated.
He's been depressed so long,
- Written by: Gregory Boyce
- Category: Society
On July 23, 2015 on a hot and humid mid-summers night in Lafayette, Louisiana, a 59 year-old drifter from Phenix City, Alabama, named John Houser, calmly enters the Grand Theatre movie complex and buys a single ticket for the romantic comedy, "Train Wreck". Besieged by marital problems and mental illness he waits for the "voice within" to guide him.
Read more: Insane and licensed to kill…Murder comes to a movie theater in Lafayette, Louisiana
- Written by: Deborah Baron
- Category: Society
"Kids today", has often been said by parents. How often do we hear that? Or even say it ourselves? What does it mean when people say that? Usually the suggestion is negative, that they are lazy, that they don't work as hard, that they get into trouble or have bad attitudes. Not very often does it mean that kids today are exceeding our expectations. Some believe even Socrates shared the same sentiment (although it has not been definitively verified as Socrates), "The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise." I would like to stick up for Generation Y (Millennials). I think we are giving them a bit of a bad rap. My own children are Generation Y so I am speaking from personal experience from what I have seen from them and from their friends and acquaintances.
