Not my First Rodeo

A Conversation as Treasured as It Was Confounded   Why couldn’t we just call a halt for a while – stop making those chlorofluorocarbons that are destroying the ozone layer, halt the auto assembly lines and see if we can’t come up with viable

Where Limericks and Rodeo Coincide   The genre of comical verse Inclines to the crude and perverse. But in an era so ratty, So messed-up and batty, Could it possibly make anything worse?   In order to achieve a score that could lead to a

The Promise of Historical Thinking on the Fourth of July The laws of the Early Republic “made explicit provision to protect the lands reserved for the Indians from white encroachment, and from 1796 on the laws provided that the President of the

Serving and Protecting in the Arenas of the Domestic and the International It is presumable that a nation solicitous of establishing its character on the broad basis of justice, would not only hesitate, but reject every proposition to benefit

A Social Psychology Experiment Set to the Tune of “Let Me Call You Sweetheart”   “While they meet to talk about the problems of aging in America, Charles Kuralt has found a young woman in Santa Cruz, California, who is doing

TEACHING AS THE MAIN ATTRACTION AT THE TRUE GRITRODEO Howard Roberts Lamar was my adviser in graduate school. Without the true grit he brought to bear on that role, I truly do not know what would have become of me. As this opening statement

EMPATHY RECLAIMS ITS POWER AND COMES TO OUR RESCUE   As God is my witness, I believe that the United States is in peril. Since this is the first time in my life that I have asked a deity to lend me His credibility, I wanted to make sure that I

TIME TRAVEL AT THE BOSTON RADIO RODEO Any man’s death diminishes me, Because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom The bell tolls; it tolls for thee. John Donne, “No Man Is an Island”   Exactly forty years ago

RODEO’S INSTITUTIONAL KIN—THE SHEEPDOG TRIALS “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break the bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely

The Book of Matthew Stays in the Saddle at the White House Rodeo  Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Matthew 5: 5-6   THE WORLD