Category Archives: racism
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Baseball, Xenophobia, and Optimism
Leave a commentFebruary 14, 2025 by libroshombre
The Sage of Baltimore, H.L. Mencken, is largely forgotten these days, but as a magazine journalist writer, editor, and …
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Reasonable Resolutions, Personal Transformation, and Starting Over
Leave a commentJanuary 23, 2024 by libroshombre
An app called Blinkist costs $12.99 a month and is designed to help you achieve your New Year resolution …
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Lynchings, Black Holes, and Horny Toads
1July 10, 2023 by libroshombre
There’s been some interesting overlapping on my radar that involve lynching, black holes, horny toads, and the frightening rise …
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Lynching, Black Holes, and Horny Toads
Leave a commentApril 18, 2023 by libroshombre
There’s been some interesting overlapping on my radar that involve lynching, black holes, horny toads, and the frightening rise in …
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Griffonage, Chins, and Satchmo
Leave a commentJuly 9, 2022 by libroshombre
There’s plenty that you and I don’t know. As expressed by Donald Rumsfeld in his typically tortured manner, “As …
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Paw-Paws, the Klan, and Good Taste
Leave a commentMay 9, 2022 by libroshombre
LIBRARY COLUMN Contact Greg Hill, 479-4344 May 5, 2022 The Chilean-American writer Isabel Allende and I must smell …
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Doodah, Play-Doh, and Art
Leave a commentApril 28, 2019 by libroshombre
Here are three art-related questions for you involving music, sculpture, and painting: are smells and paint-by-number paintings really art, and …
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