Monthly Archives: August 2009

Dane-geld

Posted on August 6, 2009 by Stephen W. Browne

Note: This appeared as a weekend op-ed in my newspaper. I’ve used the Dane-geld trope before, in an email after the Madrid bombings, and it went viral. So sue me, it’s a damn good poem and expresses an Eternal Truth. … Continue reading →

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What’s Kathleen Parker about?

Posted on August 5, 2009 by Stephen W. Browne

Readers may remember that I’ve heaped scorn on Civil War revisionism here: http://rantsand.blogspot.com/2008/01/second-guessing-history-this-lincoln.html http://rantsand.blogspot.com/2008/01/second-guessing-history-this-lincoln_17.html and defended the South here: http://rantsand.blogspot.com/2008/02/why-no-durn-yankee-peckerhead-is-ever_12.html Now I have to defend the South again, from an attack from an unexpected direction. If you go here http://townhall.com/columnists/KathleenParker/2009/08/05/them_dang_southerners … Continue reading →

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Such is life…

Posted on August 5, 2009 by Stephen W. Browne

Heavy sigh. I wrote the following editorial after the events described within. The web site of the organization is here: http://www.nrn.org/ Everybody must have heard by now about the bunch of volunteers in town from an organization most of us … Continue reading →

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