THE COLOR OF STUPIDITY
BY JON FERGUSON The mainstream belief among scientists is that race is a social construct without biological meaning. Megan Gannon, LiveScience on February 5, 2016 Cats are different colors. Dogs are different colors.…
AS ANY STONE
M.C. GARDNER Wherefore, I say let a man be of good cheer about his soul – who has adorned the soul in her own proper jewels which are temperance, and…
THE COLOR OF STUPIDITY
BY JON FERGUSON The mainstream belief among scientists is that race is a social construct without biological meaning. Megan Gannon, Live Science, February 5, 2016 Cats are different colors. Dogs are…
THE ANTHROPOLOGIST
BY JON FERGUSON REVIEWED BY M.C. GARDNER Jon Ferguson’s The Anthropologist is splendid anthropology and a masterful follow up to Farley’s Jewel. In Jewel Ferguson’s Professor Larry Farley was in search of Being. More prosaically, Ferguson’s…
A PAVAROTTI TRIFECTA
GREG STANFORD I waited on the tarmac. It was Spring, 1972 in Memphis, Tennessee and I was awaiting the arrival of my girlfriend at the airport She was coming in from New…
HEADING DOWN THE DRAIN
JON FERGUSON When one finally realizes that one is heading down the drain, should it be a day of celebration or gnashing of teeth? I would tend to say the…
THE MAKER
M.C. GARDNER “He had never lingered among the pleasures of memory. Impressions, momentary and vivid, would wash over him: a potters vermilion glaze; the sky-vault filled with stars that were…
CUTTING A RUG WITH BERNSTEIN
GREG STANFORD While conductor/composer Leonard Bernstein was not generally thought of as an opera conductor, he did achieve great distinction as just that from time to time. Many treasure memories…
THE FARMERS
JON FERGUSON 8 Betty and Farmer both still taught English. She worked for the city and taught the language to adult immigrants and foreigners. She enjoyed dealing with adults who…
THE OLD MAN & THE LAST WORD
The old man felt the time had come to shut up. He had said enough, nearly 40,000 words this time. He had often wondered why he kept on writing…more than…
THE OLD MAN & HAYDN’S 103rd
Jon Ferguson When the old man put on Haydn’s Symphony No. 103 (“Drum Roll”), the world – according to all news outlets he had read or watched lately – was…
CORONAVIRUS JOURNAL
JON FERGUSON April 9, 2020 Saving Lives I wonder about our civilization and the cries I hear about saving the planet. On the one hand, many people are talking about…
TRUMP: WHITEHOUSE/MADHOUSE
TRUMP TURNED THE WHITEHOUSE INTO A MADHOUSE RICHARD COHEN Dec. 31, 2018 at 1:55 p.m. PST I drove past the White House the other day. It had been a while,…
BACK STAGE WITH FRANCO CORELLI
Franco Corelli Greg Stanford In May, 1967, the fledgling Ear was a 19-year-old student born and bred in a small Midwestern town in Illinois. Despite rarely having been farther from…
THE MOTHER OF ALL DREAMS
JON FERGUSON There is the mother of all wars; this night I had the mother of all dreams. It is 10h15. I awoke at 5h33. I still feel like I…