tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639339699258439249.post4612552322323932560..comments2024-02-03T14:41:13.330-05:00Comments on Writing Without Paper: State of SiegeMaureenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13290283101378474845noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639339699258439249.post-50080871487917265532011-02-17T06:06:40.101-05:002011-02-17T06:06:40.101-05:00The program sounds powerful, I want to listen too....The program sounds powerful, I want to listen too. Dark, dark truths about our history. I have mixed feelings about Black History month (shortest month, for one thing!), but if it makes us, importantly, look at and remember these horrors, it should remain.Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639339699258439249.post-4960239499163112802011-02-16T20:52:40.481-05:002011-02-16T20:52:40.481-05:00Yes, Jay; it's beyond unfortunate. I think we&...Yes, Jay; it's beyond unfortunate. I think we'll never see eradication of such ugly prejudice in our lifetimes.<br /><br />I read today that the cold cases are going to be broadcast as some kind of television show. I'm not sure I'd want to speculate on how such a show might be received.Maureenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13290283101378474845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639339699258439249.post-16939410024254008992011-02-16T20:03:18.197-05:002011-02-16T20:03:18.197-05:00Unfortunately, a certain Mississippian nature has ...Unfortunately, a certain Mississippian nature has not been expunged with history. Its governor, Haley Barbour, who not long ago was romanticizing the race relations of his youthful hometown, now refuses to come out against a proposal to put slave-trading, first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan Nathan Bedford Forrest on <a href="http://colorlines.com/archives/2011/02/gov_haley_barbour_refuses_to_denounce_kkk_license_plates.html" rel="nofollow">license plates</a>.<br /><br />On a lighter note, I never thought about it either, but Nance Marie is right: Lyndon is a cool name.the sad red earthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03274385814146546329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639339699258439249.post-35798036857526042672011-02-16T18:35:29.094-05:002011-02-16T18:35:29.094-05:00i have not before thought about the name lyndon ap...i have not before thought about the name lyndon apart from johnson. but, it is a pretty cool name on it's own.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639339699258439249.post-87117512999877873032011-02-16T08:10:17.052-05:002011-02-16T08:10:17.052-05:00The discomfort I feel when I read that number has ...The discomfort I feel when I read that number has faces on it. I still find it hard to fathom this recent part of our history. So many parts are just incomprehensible to me. These are brothers and sisters...I will check out the site, Maureen. I don't want to forget how this discomfort feels. There is too high a price to pay for forgetting.Laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08263995875732832349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639339699258439249.post-83662771445293809272011-02-16T06:40:41.420-05:002011-02-16T06:40:41.420-05:00I will listen to the program. Thanks. Some of the ...I will listen to the program. Thanks. Some of the images you cite were seared into me as a child and will never leave me.Lorenzo — Alchemist's Pillowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07522265816460154722noreply@blogger.com