by David Tebaldi | Aug 8, 2014 | The Public Humanist
Editor’s Note: This collection of annotated primary sources prepared by David Tebaldi was originally posted here on The Public Humanist on August 3, 2009. He also prepared this annotated list of novels and memoirs selected to further illuminate the conflict. The...
by James Heflin | Aug 26, 2014 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Petanque is a serious game. And we’re talking deadly serious. If you don’t know the game, well–and may the saints of southern France forgive me for saying so–imagine bocci, only with pastis and lots of Frenchmen. Oh, and death threats. It is,...
by Caleb Rounds | Aug 3, 2014 | Talk Dirt to Me
We’re been on “vacation” on the fractionally-less exclusive of Massachusetts’ barrier islands. One might be excused for imagining lazy days whiled away in the sun before cocktails on the lanai, but this is not the case. When the indigent...
by Caleb Rounds | Aug 13, 2014 | Talk Dirt to Me
I don’t think it’s still there, but a few years ago I complimented the bakers at the Hungry Ghost on a vine growing just outside their door. The berries were in various state of ripeness going from green through yellow to purple and blue. The plant had...
by Caleb Rounds | Aug 17, 2014 | Talk Dirt to Me
I read Remembrance of Things Past twenty years ago so don’t actually remember the famous scene in which the narrator bites into a madeleine cake and is transported back to his youth. Your garden variety English nerd will point out (or Wikipedia) that the scene...