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Whatʼs Race Got to Do with It?
With the deliberate distortion and manipulative release of wickedly edited video from a NAACP speech by an unassuming and eminently reasonable Department of Agriculture employee, former Iowa governor...
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Donʼt Fear the Borer?
I just had an ugly flash of autumn — not a major issue whatsoever. But in thinking about something to write for today (actually, as promised yesterday, I am writing this on Tuesday in an avowed attempt...
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WordWine
I have many favorite things (one of my notes-to-self for the blog is to discuss my favorite things). I listed some of the addictive (or at least noticeably unproductive) ones yesterday. Youʼre going to...
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A FoxHunt Friday® — Mosque Madness
Uh oh, here I go again. Iʼll add apologies in advance as well as at the end, as originally written. I do admit that stupid stuff I hear on the news can get me upset or at least writing. And the...
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Not an FHF®, Really… Itʼs Not…
I just got kind of scared… Again. On Facebook. My Newsfeed has me concerned. I acknowledge, if anyone whoʼs been reading this blog needed the clarification, that on my Facebook page you wonʼt find any...
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Labor Daydreams
Hereʼs an reasonably unreasonable post for this day, since all other kinds of Voices are making speeches… Labor Day seems to have become an ironic holiday as Big Business exerts its ever more powerful...
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Re: Monday and Thursday, Too
I guess I am looking backward as September begins… I almost didnʼt post yesterdayʼs rant. Probably I am somewhat sorry I did. Ultimately, rereading it again, I decided that if the foul hate-vendors I...
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Faithful Doubts
As my Facebook friends could realize, I finally got around to taking the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life quiz on general religious knowledge. When they gave it as a survey/poll, Pew returned an...
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No Separation?
Todayʼs post is the direct continuation of the long essay I began yesterday. I frequently wonder at the kind of mind (even soul) that must cling to a rock-solid, dead-certain set of irrational...
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Faithful Facts
And today provides the third installment on my religion-and-government reflections, continuing from Tuesday and yesterday. Problematically for our Christian-American religious zealots, the Constitution...
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Wayfaring Stranger
Ironically, or through synchronicity, or merely by coincidence, after I had finished the posts for Wednesday and (at least roughed out) yesterday, God in America was on PBS Tuesday night. With American...
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Contra PoinDextremism
Intriguingly, statistics on hits have clearly shown that if I want to get lots of readers (well, “lots” for us here at Wakdjunkagaʼs Blog, which means more than a bakerʼs dozen or two), I should take a...
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Yearʼs End
…And suddenly the year is at its end. I am somehow surprised that I have actually, as of this unessayʼs ætheric appearance, composed at least a post a day for a full 365 days, not to mention no less...
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Interrupted Thoughts
Sunday, Janet decided to (her word) “purge” some things from her stores in the office, meaning mostly documents and other papers. (She also spent a few hours culling recipes she figured neither of us...
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Taking the Easy Way Out
I skipped a few days putting a post up. Work has intervened, both actual, in substituting for several days, and potential, in a new job I might get for the spring and summer (rather like last yearʼs...
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Driven to Desperate Measures (Maybe)
More days without a post. Am I losing interest in the blog? Not at all. So what has been happening instead of blog-writing? Ironically, considering my most recent post, I have been arguing away on...
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The Perfect Birthday Surprise
Periodically I’ve commented on the luscious spam that both I and WordPress have permitted to appear through commentary here on the blog, but the world of spam took on a whole new level of un-splendid...
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Sunday Bonus
On Friday, while students were working away researching and/or typing up persuasive essays, reading or completing assignments over previous reading, I checked on a few things and made plans for this...
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Dirty Work (at and away from The Crossroads)
My job is dirty work. I havenʼt mentioned this issue before partly because it didnʼt seem that way back in April when I got started. (I am thinking about “when I got started” as I have begun to take...
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Apologetic Punkʼdee
Sometimes oneʼs own foolishness can provide the meat for a blog post. Well, thatʼs true at least in my case. And hereʼs the post, today, to prove the axiom. (I could have entitled this one, “Stepping...
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Past Blast
As the dextremist Enemies of Americans at Fox News attempt (tiresomely, repetitively, again) to distort real news/events for Their own smarmy purposes (abetted by that shady and seditious shark, Andy...
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Corporate Con Games
As our play, One Flew over the Cuckooʼs Nest* at The Grand Opera House in Dubuque, draws very close indeed — opening night is this coming Friday —, my life headed in a very distracting direction, for...
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Cur•mudg•eon
(noun) — bad-tempered or surly person (with my most insincere apologies, of course) Maybe this post results just because I have had time, with our production of One Flew over the Cuckooʼs Nest up and...
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Friday Fuming?*
…and another long span of time has passed without a post. This time, the excuses are few. Our production of One Flew over the Cuckooʼs Nest in Dubuque is over (has been for two weeks now), and I have...
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Joining the Hall of Shame
1/11/12 Today we pay off our mortgage. $932.05. The escrow returns to us in about fifteen days, a deliberate delay by Wells Fargo that stinks of greed — sucking additional profit through interest from...
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