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Bumpy Landing

Posted on July 8, 2014, 9:48 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Close Up, Theme Songs.

Life’s major transitions are often messy. When (halfway between two marriages) I finally gave up playing the field, that was a major transition. And majorly messy.

Tags: 1942, 1943, 1985, 1986, 1987, Ann Arbor, Army Air Corps, Belleaire, Belleview Biltmore, Charlottesville, Clearwater Beach, Confessions, Earl Klugh, Florida, Great Crash, Guard of Honor, Gulf Coast, Gulf of Mexico, hat party, Innuendo, James Gould Cozzens, MadDill Airfield, Maryland Humanities Council, messiness, Michael Franks, monogamy, National Humanities Council, Ocanara, Oleander Towers, plutocrats, private railway cars, Saint Augustine, sunset, transitions, Virginia, World War II
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Wash Your Mouth Out! Bite Your Tongue! The Uses of Political Correctness

Posted on October 4, 2010, 11:39 am, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Big Picture.

Political Correctness is an antibody that attaches itself to your diseased discourse and protects the American immune system.

Tags: Andrew Goodman, April, Barack Obama, Birmingham church bombing, Birth of a Nation, Civil War, Civil War in Virginia Month, Confederacy, Confederate History Month, Confederates, D.W. Griffiths, Douglas Wilder, Emmett Till, First Amendment, George Allen, Governor Douglas Wilder, Governor Robert McDonnell, James Byrd, James Chaney, lynching, Medgar Evers, Michael Schwerner, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, political correctness, politicalcorrectness.com, politically incorrect, Polly Toynbee, President Obama, President Woodrow Wilson, racial epithets, rape, Robert McDonnell, Sarah Palin, Second American Revolution, slavery, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Viola Liuzzo, Virginia, Woodrow Wilson
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The Big Picture and the Closeup

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Bumpy Landing

Wash Your Mouth Out! Bite Your Tongue! The Uses of Political Correctness

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