English teacher Scott Compton, in the context of what his attorney Darryl Smalls describes as a “lesson in symbolism,” reportedly stomped on an American flag during three honors classes at Chapin High School in mid-December. According to Smalls, Compton was “trying to show (that) America is greater than its national emblem.” There are folks in […]
This was supposed to be a post about the time I drove over 300 miles round-trip from Columbia to Savannah to buy a radioactive red Fiestaware teapot. Instead, belying today’s upbeat headline and photo, I’m going say hello to the Marines who deployed their youthful tallywhackers recently, urinating on what are reported to have been […]
To quote myself quoting an unlikable Maugham character last month, “a man who dies for his country dies because he likes it as surely as a man eats pickled cabbage because he likes it.” And while I don’t for a moment believe that anybody wants to die in combat, intuition tells me that many or […]
