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Oct. 6th, 2009
The Real Reason Dad Bought A Sanyo TV
Oct. 6th, 2009 01:20 am
HER picture was on the box. Ashley Force Hood.
Now we know who we're rooting for in NHRA from now on.
(I'm kind of kidding, tho'; Dad made a wise decision given the circumstances.)
Another Dose of FreeWill
Oct. 6th, 2009 08:40 pmSagittarius Horoscope for week of October 8, 2009
In 1968, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn finished his book The Gulag Archipelago, a scorching indictment of the oppression that he and his countrymen suffered under the totalitarian regime of the Soviet Union. Banned for years, it was never formally published in his home country until 1989. Even after that, the new Russian government tried to control the teaching of history by suppressing texts like Solzhenitsyn's. This year, all that changed. The Gulag Archipelago became required reading in Russian high schools. At last, the truth is officially available. (Maybe one day the equivalent will happen in the U.S., with alternate histories by Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky and James Loewen finding their way into the curriculum.) I celebrate this breakthrough as a symbol of the events that are about to unfold in your personal life: the long-lost truth finally revealed.
I saw that book last week in the paperback bargain bin at the Dandridge library. I didn't pick it up because I had other priorities in mind at the time.
I rather doubt there are any "long-lost truths" left to be found in my life beyond the missing links of my family line. And even so, what benefits could they have for me this late in my life? Not that I like the idea of ignorance for ignorance's sake. There is no bliss in not knowing the world around one's self.
In 1968, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn finished his book The Gulag Archipelago, a scorching indictment of the oppression that he and his countrymen suffered under the totalitarian regime of the Soviet Union. Banned for years, it was never formally published in his home country until 1989. Even after that, the new Russian government tried to control the teaching of history by suppressing texts like Solzhenitsyn's. This year, all that changed. The Gulag Archipelago became required reading in Russian high schools. At last, the truth is officially available. (Maybe one day the equivalent will happen in the U.S., with alternate histories by Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky and James Loewen finding their way into the curriculum.) I celebrate this breakthrough as a symbol of the events that are about to unfold in your personal life: the long-lost truth finally revealed.
I saw that book last week in the paperback bargain bin at the Dandridge library. I didn't pick it up because I had other priorities in mind at the time.
I rather doubt there are any "long-lost truths" left to be found in my life beyond the missing links of my family line. And even so, what benefits could they have for me this late in my life? Not that I like the idea of ignorance for ignorance's sake. There is no bliss in not knowing the world around one's self.