Sunday, June 29, 2008

Time to Wear the Big-Boy Pants

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Mack Hall Booze is at last legal in Jasper, Texas, and the first purchaser probably looked at the news cameras while heaving a case of Sloug...
Monday, June 23, 2008

Reality Funerals

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Mack Hall Several weeks ago a fellow who made his living arguing with people on the tellyvision died unexpectedly (but, really, does anyone ...
Sunday, June 15, 2008

No, It's Not Katrina

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Mack Hall All of Iowa’s major rivers are flooding, which means most of Iowa is flooding. Farms, suburbs, urban areas, the capital, the cap...
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Sunday, June 8, 2008

Beggars, Urban Climbers, and the Environment

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Mack Hall Last week one of the world’s superfluous rich climbed the New York Times Building (is there a connection?) to unfold a banner mai...
Sunday, June 1, 2008

When in Doubt, Blame the Soldier

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Mack Hall “War hath no fury like a non-combatant” -- Charles Edward Montague On the night of 6 June 1944 my father was on a ship in the Engl...
Monday, May 26, 2008

A Sequence of Iambs for Graduation Night

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Mack Hall A Sequence of Iambs for Graduation Night A few clumsy iambs are not enough To thank you for the bles...
Sunday, May 25, 2008

Indiana Jones Wheezes Through

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Mack Hall When one thinks of high adventure one naturally thinks of Indiana with its menacing cornfields of death, gravity-defying flat land...
Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Kae and The Chancer

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Mack Hall The mystery of the Redemption of the world is…rooted in suffering, and this suffering in turn finds in the mystery of the Redempti...

The Class of 2008

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Mack Hall Children insist on growing up and going away. Their teachers are not happy about that. Really. Every year the old…um, venerable fa...
Sunday, May 11, 2008

"But I'm a College Graduate!"

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Mack Hall This is an old wheeze; this version is from the ‘blog Happy Catholic: A young man hired by a supermarket reported for his first da...
Sunday, May 4, 2008

Well-Trained Americans

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Mack Hall Amtrak, first cousin to FEMA, wants Americans to come down to the railway station on May 10th and celebrate National Train Day. Th...
Sunday, April 27, 2008

You'll Never Hear This on NPR

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Mack Hall You’ll Never Hear This on NPR In an unsettled time when some discount stores will sell a customer only 100 pounds of rice a week (...
Sunday, April 20, 2008

Art by Kennkarte

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Mack Hall The Denver Center Theatre Company, founded in 1978 by visionaries seeing the possibilities in an abandoned downtown stage, has enj...
Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Conscription? Armchair Heroes First!

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Mack Hall A surprising number of people – people who are never going to have to risk dying in the dust of Iraq – are proposing a return to m...
Sunday, April 6, 2008

Down With Big 'Phone!

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Mack Hall Studies show (hey, if radio personalities boasting questionable doctorates can resort to such vapid lead-ins as “studies show…,” w...
Sunday, March 30, 2008

Versin' on th' Chain Gang

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Mack Hall A woman in California has started a company specializing in greeting cards for prisoners. Let us unlock the possibilities, and loo...
Sunday, March 23, 2008

Typical White Passport

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Mack Hall The typical American can only be deeply offended and hurt by the insensitivity of the State Department in snooping through the pas...
Monday, March 17, 2008

Saturday Morning Thoughts Over Coffee With Other Old Geezers

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Mack Hall Saturday Morning Thoughts Over Coffee With Other Old Geezers If American money is so worthless, why does our government tak...
Sunday, March 2, 2008

Change. Maybe

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Mack Hall Downtown Beaumont is a great place for photography. Many buildings there are survivors of a happier architectural age and display...
Sunday, February 24, 2008

Humans -- Chock Full of Vitamins and Other Essential Nutrients

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Mack Hall In Hawaii a tiger took a walk on the mild side last week, escaping its catdominium and strolling around the human parts of the zoo...