Words seems to have lost their hold on the imagination. At least to the masses weened on the immediacy of the internet where even short simple words are being reduced into ever simpler forms. We speak to our most base, vulgar urges without giving thought to the actual words we use. There was a time when authors allowed their words to drift ( Read more... )

Ahh, to conquer the world and set within ones crown the jewel of knowledge. Thus was the great Library at Alexandria conceived.

( Enter Alexandria )

The health care Bill is very near to completion and should be opened up to debate within the next few days and while it is true that the bill is not sufficiently formed, nor public enough to accurately debate its merits there are a few things emerging that should illustrate a hidden agenda. Since it is quite evident that Republicans in no ways ( Read more... )

   It is raining again today. In my memory I don't recall being inundated with as much rain in Georgia as we have had these last few weeks. Not only the rain, but unseasonable colder temperatures as well. Already, and this is only Early October the Northern states have felt the touch of falling snow and there is talk of a nice proper winter even ( Read more... )

"How can I help being a humbug when all these people make me do things that everyone knows cant be done ( Read more... )

What it means to be a Native America who is not Native American.

What’s in a name? Or to be more precise, what is in a description, specifically the description Native American? What does this mean? I was born in America, to American born parents of American born ancestors who fought in all of this countries wars (sometimes on both sides), ( Read more... )

Today the blues became a quintessential American musical style with the publication of "Memphis Blues", by William Christopher Handy. As a teenager handy joined a local band where he learned to play the coronet . While living in Florence, Alabama he took work on a "shovel Brigade" in a coal furnace and was introduced to the unique chant songs of ( Read more... )

It's raining today. It rained yesterday and the day before and the day before that. In fact it has been raining for the better part of two weeks on a daily basis. And it is not a gentle shower but hard driving torrential rains. Georgia only a year ago was in the midst of a drought that was being talked about around the world. Our water was running ( Read more... )

Does anyone else find the following statement a bit odd...

"We deeply value the contributions of the Tolkien novels to the success of our films and are pleased to have put this litigation behind us," Horn said. "We all look forward to a mutually productive and beneficial relationship in the future."

They deeply value the Contributions of of Tolkiens ( Read more... )

Jung's desire to strip mythic figures down to archetypes for use in psychoanalysis had done a great disservice to the stories mythic usefulness. While the archetype is important in so much as it gives a codified language by which we might convey nuances of character, it is not the source of the stories. By reducing the story to basic archetypes ( Read more... )