Sunday, July 27, 2008

Beijing, We Have a Problem

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Mack Hall The 19th was the British century, and the 20th was the American. The 21st is said to be the Chinese century, but beijing has a pr...
Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Mack Reports on Hurricane Dolly

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Mack Hall Mighty Category (number) Hurricane Dolly demonstrated Mother Nature’s wrath and scorn for man’s place in the planet as she slammed...
Sunday, July 20, 2008

World Geezer Day

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Mack Hall With the close of World Youth Day in Australia, we aging Boomers naturally ask why we can’t have a day of our own with a visit by ...
Tuesday, July 15, 2008

For Jason and Ingrid on the Pilgrimage Road to Santiago de Compostela

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Mack Hall An Old Man Takes His Evening Walk For Young Jason and Inky on Their Morning Journey An old man weary-wends his evening walk Along ...
Sunday, July 13, 2008

Orwell Was Wrong

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Mack Hall Orwell got it wrong, of course. In 1984 the omnipresent telescreen is forced upon a subservient population by an omnipotent socia...
Saturday, July 12, 2008

Priestblock 25487, by Jean Bernard

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A brief review for Amazon.com: Father Bernard's narrative, written shortly after the war, is especially effective in its understatement....
Monday, July 7, 2008

The Curse of the Headless Hitler

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Mack Hall In Berlin a Communist ex-policeman crossed a barrier in a private museum in order to twist the head off a wax statue of Adolf Hitl...
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...