“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.”
Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Archives for June 2021
Snapshot: Kitty Wells sings “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels”
Kitty Wells sings “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels” on an undated Grand Ole Opry telecast:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)
Almanac: Martin Luther King, Jr., on moral cowardice
“We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.”
Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
Lookback: did I write that?
From 2015:
Read the whole thing here.In the last twelve years alone, I’ve written close to a thousand columns for The Wall Street Journal and more than eleven thousand postings in this space, not to mention my monthly essays for Commentary and fugitive writings for sundry other magazines and newspapers. What’s surprising isn’t that I forgot having written about Mel Powell, but that I can still remember—usually—what I wrote about last week.
Almanac: Wendell Mayes on men in combat
“All battles are fought by scared men who’d rather be someplace else.”
Wendell Mayes, screenplay for In Harm’s Way