Eons ago, I took Latin in high school, because it looked good on a college application, because it was a trip back to Mr Chipsville handing out As for just showing up, because it satisfied an admittedly useless and sublimely aristocratic yearning to know more about the roots of our adulterated Franco-Norman-Anglo-Saxon-idiom, because it pleased highly educated and idealistic parents,…
Black is the color of my true love’s hair.is the opening of an old popular song wherein a love describes his lady love. But if the object of his affections were a red head, or an amber toned brunette, would his flame throb weaker and his praise sound just a little off key? And suppose, the lover was a priest…
Recently…Beautiful, educated, articulate, culturally diverse and you cannot make them any dumber. That sums up the light of the weekend morning talk shows, Melissa Harris Perry in full social justice warrior regalia. I am willing to bet a hypothetical subscription to the New Yorker Magazine that Ms Perry has never experienced a day of prejudice of the go to the…
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It is a sign of the times that before arriving at the exact definition of a banshee, I traipsed through 3 Google pages of bansheedom mentioning everything from a tv series to a bike to (figure this one out) a wine store until the Wikipedia blue penmanship alit on a site « Ireland days » appropriately Celtically crossed. Other pen…
This is a confession and a plea for attenuating circumstances surrounding the crime of political incorrectness and cultural appropriation. Given the riot over Halloween costumes at Yale, I will in the best Marxist tradition of autocritique, admit that I once dressed up as a pilgrim when the weighty issue of Halloween was considered a minor but interesting exercise in developing…
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