Dallas Driving from Little Rock to Dallas on Easter morning, the red clover along the interstate seemed a foot high in Arkansas and started to peter out in Texas to be replaced by bluebonnets along the embankments and the wonderful site of seeing parked cars along the highway disgorging whole families who wanted to have …
Month: April 2014
The Melian Debate: One of the Great Organizing Exercises
Little Rock In a brilliant essay in the New York Times “Stone” series on philosophy, the moderator and a professor at the New School, Simon Critchley, decided to spit in the wind on Easter Sunday of all days, the miraculous day of hope for Christians taking the giant and glorious leap of faith in believing in …
Shoot to Learn
Little Rock At dusk we rode to an abandoned area miles from people and highways and placed targets on old logs nestled up against a large hillside berm. The uncle and brother-in-law had been a gun safety instructor in the National Guard, and carefully explained to each one of the novice shooters who had never fired …