With only a few days to spare before their final appearance of the season, J. Michael Craig and I traveled to Pelzer this week to see The Light People … a family of Pelzerites who stand at the edge of their gaily-lit lawn dressed head-to-toe in 120-volt Chrismas tree lights. Orange extension cords […]
There needs to be a men’s club for guys like me. I’m picturing a large, low, dark-paneled room … leather wingbacks, books, a sideboard stocked with exotic beverages. Chatting, chuckling, reading. Checkers and backgammon. Pipe tobacco. Light opera on the radio. I don’t smoke or play board games, but the atmosphere appeals. The problem, of […]
Sinclair Lewis published It Can’t Happen Here in 1936. Think 9/11. Think Patriot Act. Think Afghanistan, Glen Beck, Bill O’Reilly and mandatory health insurance. Is corporatocracy fascism? Think Orwell. Think RFID chips embedded in consumer goods and suspension of habeus corpus. Think surveillance cameras bristling from every solid surface in sight. Do you feel safer? […]
