I’ve written about music before in this space, and those posts have proven to be among the most popular. As of this week, my post on guitar solos has received over 230 hits, my post on songs about the radio has over 380 hits, and my post on the album Layla And Other…
If you’ve followed this blog over the past few years, you would know that professional wrestling is a huge interest of mine. I’ve already written about cage matches and about “the original Pearl Harbor job“, but this post will focus more sharply on the aspect of professional wrestling characters, specifically those who are…
As I mentioned in my last post, I spend a lot of time teaching my high school students about the American Civil War. Or, to be more accurate, I should say “the Civil War era”. As I tell them on the first day of the school year, I’m a pacifist, and I don’t…
So in my day job I teach American history (and since I work at a boarding school, it is often my night job as well). One of my classes is a survey course on U.S. history. I believe that it is impossible to understand America without understanding the Civil War, so every year…