Gulfport Berea College is as close as something comes to a one-of-a-kind, single institution, social change education experiment. Founded 162 years ago by abolitionists in Kentucky to educate freed slaves and lower income white students, to this day the college only admits lower income students. The Times reports that 98% of its classes use federal …
Month: December 2017
Is There No Limit to Corruption in Politics in the Age of Trump?
Gulfport I really wanted to write about the implosion of the Miss America pageant: finally! Sadly, I’m not sure there’s anyway to kill that retro-abomination. The fact that the bosses at such a well known and widely advertised meat market would speak of the women like little more than carcasses is hardly a surprise …
Jerry Jones Brings Down Papa John Pizza Man This Time
Gulfport Jerry Jones, bully-boy owner of the Dallas Cowboys team in the National Football League has not had a good year, though he is likely too oblivious to know it, and, as bad as his year has been, it’s been an even worse year for everyone and everything he touches. On his own account, he …