Blanche Barrow This was Blanche Barrow in late 1933. Twenty-two years old. An inmate in the Missouri State Penitentiary. Something is wrong with her left eye. Blanche grew up poor in Oklahoma and Texas. Little schooling. Her last job was washing hair in a beauty salon. She was married to Buck Barrow, 30, from […]
“Minister President Quisling addresses the nation.” “Men and women of Norway, a few days ago, the world received the news that Adolf Hitler, the Führer and Chancellor of the German Reich, had died, as befitting a hero, at his command post in Berlin during his heroic effort to prevent the Bolshevik destruction of his country and […]
In 2019, contributor to this site Robert S. Griffin compiled a collection of his short writings on a variety of topics called What Came to Mind: Thoughts Late in Life. For the book, Dr. Griffin gave himself a page limit—three hundred pages. Staying within that quota, he selected thoughts, as he called them, posted on […]
In publications like this one, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1840–1900) comes up a lot. Just about everybody knows his maxim, “What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.” Or at least some version of it, the wording varies from speaker to speaker. Sometimes the reference is “us” rather than “me”: the 1982 movie “Conan the Barbarian” […]
Prominent on the front page of the February 14th New York Times is a feature story—“14 MIN READ” it said (most articles are two to six minutes), nine pictures, billed as “The Great Read”– by Times’ opinion columnist Maureen Dowd called “Live From New York, It’s Lorne Michaels: The man who made ‘Saturday Night Live’ […]
