June 8, 2011 JMRL Blog “I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.” Kurt Vonnegut
May 20, 2011 JMRL Blog “The rags of obedience, servility, reverential awe dropped in a belt around him.” Thomas Wolfe in Chapter 17
May 12, 2011 JMRL Blog “There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.” Graham Greene, “The Power and the Glory”
May 9, 2011 JMRL Blog Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint. CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, “Terrorism: Notes Toward a Definition”
April 22, 2011 JMRL Blog “In school I remember learning that the Civil War ended a long time ago…. Folks here don’t see it that way. They think it’s still half-time.”