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William Grier the coauthor of Black Rage (with Pierce Cobbs) died this week at the age of 89.Ed Doctorow(an old classmate )from Bx. Science High) died several weeks ago and…

Analogic Thinking & National Character

Frank Marshall,the WW2 U.S.chess champion for eight consecutive years,was a tall red haired Californian who went east and founded the famous Marshall chess club in N.Y.C.He was a solidly built…

Symbolic Interaction &The U.S.Open

Bill Dwyer's article"Blake,Serena and Race Issue" in the sports section of the August 11th L.A Times, drew a tight circle around Serena's quest for the calendar year grand slam and…

A Foolish Consistency…

11 Sep 201511 Sep 2015

Emerson's dictum to the effect that "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds adored by little statesmen,philosophers and diviners."may be critical to the selection of an appropriate presidential…

Sixteen Men and One Woman…

The dead man whose chest the republican candidates are sitting on has been identified.It is our old friend Dick Cheney ,a.k.a.Darth Vader.Dearth might be more appropriate for lack of perspective,humility,and…

THE INTOLERABILITY OF INVISIBLE MAN STATUS: A CNN Revisit To Two Of Our Pariahs

4 Sep 20154 Sep 2015

This past weekend CNN played reruns of previous broadcasts featuring two of this blogs"pariahs".Jim Jones and Charles Manson, charismatic individuals of above average intelligence each with a vision of the…

The Retrospectoscope Looks At A Recent Symbolic Interaction

3 Sep 20153 Sep 2015

Calhoun college is one of 12 Yale residential colleges modeled on the English 800+ year old Oxford/Cambridge template.The Yale system was installed only some 70 years ago with a 1932…

THE GUN AS A FINAL SOLUTION

26 Aug 201526 Aug 2015

This a.m the news of a new shooting hit the media. This time in a town near Roanoke Va. a young telejournalist, her photographer and a member of the local…

Trump or No-Trump : What’s the Issue? Where’s the risk?

Herb Wolfson(pitcherinthe wry.blogspot.com)reminds us that Saudi Arabia is the source of the Islamic sect that spawned Isis.(Washaabi) as well as the source of Bin Laden and most of the hijackers…

Retrospectoscope<Where We Have Been and Whither Now.>

14 Aug 201514 Aug 2015

The Octogenarians began with an implicit assertion that ideas and issues that are disremembered and only foggily available may be so because of a wish among an elite to make…