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Alabama Football and the Reformation
You history buffs and Christians expected something with Martin Luther, right? Don’t worry, he’s down below, but first some prelims. For those of you looking for Martin Luther King, Jr., you’re about four centuries removed from the Martin Luther of the Protestant Reformation. Go and retake your class on world or western civilization. If he […]
The Bay of Pigs, 1961, Part 1
June 29, 2023
This is number three or four of historical tidbits we’ve done recently on the history of Latin America for our Northport Gazette readers. If you were ever students of mine at UA—1972-2013—and took some of my Latin American history courses, you might be excused from this column. Or if you forgot, keep on reading. And […]
Latin America
June 27, 2023
Lately I’ve been reading pundits, journalists, and sundry experts on American foreign policy about different parts of the world, each waxing on with apparent expertise on what we need to do in Sudan, or Ukraine, or to China to get the world right again, something along those lines. They write or speak in videos, television, […]
The Bay of Pigs, 1961, Part 1
June 27, 2023
This is number three or four of historical tidbits we’ve done recently on the history of Latin America for our Northport Gazette readers. If you were ever students of mine at UA—1972-2013—and took some of my Latin American history courses, you might be excused from this column. Or if you forgot, keep on reading. And […]
A House Visit
June 13, 2023
Most of you will no doubt wonder, now what’s Larry writing about: a house visit? But those of you fifty or older, maybe a little younger or little order, will immediately relate to “a house visit.” That’s when your doctor came to your home to take care of you. That’s right. He came to your […]
On Patriotism
May 9, 2023
Not too long ago a friend of mine, Susan Warner, asked me if patriotism was out of form. Her husband, Jack Warner, now deceased, was a veteran of the Burma theater in the Second World War and he loved this country. Then on Sunday April 16, I read a piece in the Wall Street Journal […]
The Banana Republics
May 4, 2023
Some of you may be wondering what a “banana republic” is. You can look it up in Wikipedia but be careful, since the first definition that pops up is to an upscale clothing store with lots of boobs and legs, although there are other outfits marketed for everybody from babies to men. Keep on scrolling […]
Doctors, Pilots, and Equity, or Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Infecting Our Land and People
May 4, 2023
Let’s start out with a simple decision most of us have to make at one time or another. I don’t know about you, but if I am flying or having surgery, I want someone qualified by training and ability to handle the cockpit or the scalpel. I certainly don’t want someone who is there because […]
Back in the Days…
May 3, 2023
Old timers today tend to extol the virtues of when they were young, and the world was right. We all do it, perhaps exaggerating the virtues of our world and the vices in today’s world. I was reminded of this great old world as I started to convert my huge file of 35mm slides I […]
The Church Ladies, or Into the Jail We Go
April 8, 2023
Every Monday night at 5:00 p.m., a group of female prisoners are called out of their cells by the sheriff’s deputies. They are marched off to a room at the Tuscaloosa County (Alabama) Jail, usually reserved for lawyers meeting with their clients. Instead, three friends who serve as “ministers” to the ladies arrive at the […]
Bible Gateway’s Verse of the Day
- Deuteronomy 18:15 December 10, 2023“The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your fellow Israelites. You must listen to him.”
July 21, 2023
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