Day: July 16, 2014

Whenever you’re with me, Make sure it’s still me: “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” IFRL-Mindiv-Fantasy-30240686726_0b1ec105c4_b

Whenever you’re with me, Make sure it’s still me: “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”

Rufus F. July 16, 2014

Stevenson's story endures because we sympathize with Jekyll and identify with Hyde.

Holocaust Denial in Our Schools: A Follow-Up IFRL-TLC-Scenery-GAPD-altesnational.gorge-near-amalfi

Holocaust Denial in Our Schools: A Follow-Up

Saul DeGraw July 16, 2014

A few months ago I posted an essay about a Southern California middle school that asked students...

The Logical Conclusion of “Welfare Reform” IFRL-Mindiv-GAPD-altesnational.the-theatre-du-gymnase

The Logical Conclusion of “Welfare Reform”

Saul DeGraw July 16, 2014

The big story yesterday on all my usual political blog stops was about a woman who was...

Dark Matter in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025That means people expect them not to go full out. They're using the USA as the example on how things…
LeeEsq in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025None of the wars you invoked involve developed democracies. Israel is a develop democracy and is hel…
Dark Matter in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025it’s war logic hasn’t applied since World War II. Russia v Ukraine (or Russia v anyone). ISIS v anyo…
LeeEsq in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025The it's war logic hasn't applied since World War II. Humanity, especially in the democracies, is su…
Jaybird in reply to Marchmaine on Weekend Plans Post: The Last GraduationWell, we had ours at the Air Force Academy Field House and there were all of these rules to get on t…
Jaybird in reply to InMD on Weekend Plans Post: The Last GraduationOh... yeah. I can see that. When I was a kid out in the sticks, my school had about 25ish kids in my…
InMD in reply to Jaybird on Weekend Plans Post: The Last GraduationThey were doing this when I was at UMD (Go Terps!) because every graduating class has something like…
Marchmaine in reply to Jaybird on Weekend Plans Post: The Last GraduationSeems cruel. Not like they talk directly about *my* daughter for 2hrs on each day. Plus, after a cou…
Brandon Isleib in reply to DensityDuck on A Hopeless SemanticIn my songwriting teens and twenties, I'd end up falling in love with a weird rhyme (or rhyme scheme…
DensityDuck on A Hopeless SemanticAs Keillor wrote, the sort of thing that soon slumps to such rhymes as ‘sibylline/porcupine’ and ‘ce…