30 April 2013

Open Sherman's Reservation

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A couple of weeks ago, Canadian author Steve Carter of Vancouver, British Columbia, visited Chattanooga with his wife Daphne.  A large p...
28 April 2013

A few fundamentalist fallacies

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Many ages ago, well, several years anyway, when this ancient…what the hell, it was back in the 1980’s & ‘90’s…I was fairly knowledge a...
27 April 2013

The state of the Movement in Iran

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The state of the Movement in Iran (by Movement I mean that for freedom, secular democracy, and human rights sometimes called the Green M...
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24 April 2013

Freethought vis à vis religion

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On New York's Upper West Side lived an assimilated Jew who was a militant atheist. But he sent his son to Trinity School because, despit...
23 April 2013

“Chickamauga” and “Chattanooga”, legacies of the Shawnee

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According to premier ethnographer James Mooney of the Bureau of American Ethnology, the word “Chickamauga” (pronounced Tsi-ka-ma-gi in Che...
18 April 2013

John Darby's "End Times"

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( aka The Sins of John Nelson Darby ) In 1827, Church of Ireland (Anglican) priest John Nelson Darby fell off his horse, hit his head, an...
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16 April 2013

Fictitious living in a fictional land

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( originally posted to Myspace 13 April 2008; tweaked slightly 16 April 2013 ) The propensity of the American to view both history an...
15 April 2013

America, Iran, Russia, and '80's nostalgia

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( originally posted to Myspace, 23 November 2007 ) In addition to feeding my revived interest in the blues, I've been downloadin...