Author Archives: Bob Felton

Like a lot of people in the south, I spent much of yesterday afternoon watching the eclipse. Unlike people who turned to various methods of divination, however — astrology, Bible reading, on and on — I wasn’t trying to parse … Continue reading →

A portion of H.L. Mencken’s remarks upon the death of William Jennings Bryan. What was behind that consuming hatred? At first I thought that it was mere evangelical passion. Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the … Continue reading →

BREAKING: Steve Bannon has resigned to spend more time catching live insects with his tongue. — James Martin (@Pundamentalism) August 18, 2017

Americans still have The Right Stuff Though all of us acquainted with the history of the convulsions of the 20th-Century, and who gave close attention to Donald Trump’s serial indecencies during the 2016 campaign, knew that there would inevitably be … Continue reading →

Gaston County man: “This is Nazi… America” A bright red Nazi Party flag waved in front of Joe Love’s Gaston County residence Sunday afternoon, a day after white supremacists orchestrated a violent rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that left three dead … Continue reading →