Sunday, February 22, 2009

Dirty Books

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Mack Hall I am a product of…endless books…books in the study, books in the drawing room, books in the cloakroom, books…in the great bookcase...
Saturday, February 14, 2009

Cargo Cult

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Mack Hall A wise man of my acquaintance speaks the truest words I have ever heard about materialism: “It’s only stuff.” My usual rejoinder i...
Sunday, February 8, 2009

Stimulus Package

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Mack Hall The financial depression is getting so bad that day and night I see poor people on three-wheelers fleeing poverty in terror along ...
Sunday, February 1, 2009

Irrelevant -- a Poem

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Mack Hall Irrelevant For Tod How wonderful to be irrelevant...

100 Things to Ignore Before You Die

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Mack Hall A recent visit to the book store reveals that there are only about two kinds of books for sale just now: those with pictures of th...
Sunday, January 25, 2009

Thoughts of Chairman Mack

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Mack Hall In the 1960s the obedient paraded up and down the streets of China waving Mao’s Little Red Book and killing people. Among Chairma...
Saturday, January 24, 2009

Kirbyville Elementary 2nd Grade, 1955-1956

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Kirbyville Elementary School 2nd Grade, 1955-1956 Photo by D. T. Kent Jr. of happy memory
Monday, January 19, 2009

The Prisoner

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Mack Hall By the time we finish with him, he won't know whether he's Number 6 or the cube root of infinity. -- Number 2 in The Priso...

The Prisoner

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Mack Hall By the time we finish with him, he won't know whether he's Number 6 or the cube root of infinity. -- Number 2 in The Pris...
Thursday, January 15, 2009

Russians in Moc Hoa

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I read lots of Russian lit (in translation, of course) while in Viet-Nam: Mack Hall Russians in Moc Hoa I understood poor, young Raskolnikov...
Sunday, January 11, 2009

Errol Flynn They Ain't

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Mack Hall Along the Horn of Africa some of the local folks have adopted the core financial policy of our American Congress – use force to ta...

Errol Flynn They Ain't

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Mack Hall Along the Horn of Africa some of the local folks have adopted the core financial policy of our American Congress – use force to ta...
Sunday, January 4, 2009

A Man's Not Dressed Without His Pocket Knife

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Mack Hall This last Christmas certain environmentalist groups advertised meaningful green gifts – instead of giving your child a bicycle or...
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Sunday, December 28, 2008

What if Governments Made New Year's Resolutions?

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Mack Hall India and Pakistan: Our two governments resolve to stand down all the border tension and work together in the new year so that we ...
Sunday, December 21, 2008

A Night of Watching

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Mack Hall Silent night, holy night, All is calm, all is bright Round yon Virgin Mother and Child. Holy Infant, so tender and mild, Sleep in...
Sunday, December 7, 2008

Football -- More Interesting Than a Nap

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Mack Hall For those of us gnashing our decaff lattas in the non-athletic darkness, football is only slightly more interesting than a nap, an...
Sunday, November 30, 2008

Encountering the Third World

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Mack Hall The week of Thanksgiving was one of horror, with televised images of terrorism, horror, panic, murder, and blood. And that was ju...
Sunday, November 23, 2008

Who Are You?

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Mack Hall The Duke of Norfolk: “What sort of foolery is this? Does the King visit you every day?” Thomas More: “No, but I go to Vespers mos...
Sunday, November 16, 2008

Poverty Professionals

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Mack Hall As the advertisers inflict The Christmas Season (formerly known as Advent) upon us with all the subtlety and elegance of a back-al...
Sunday, November 9, 2008

The Benefits of Being a Boomer-Geezer

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Mack Hall The Benefits of Being a Boomer-Geezer Boomers don’t make very good geezers. After all, growing old was not part of the plan. But...