Category: M. POLITICS

PAPER CUTS

On By ethomasparhamIn M. POLITICS, N. RELIGION, WARLeave a comment

” I learned to listen to an old man who had been there, even though I didn’t think he knew much .” ( Thomas Linne )

I taught THE CARE OF ATHLETIC INJURIES for twenty years. I had a confrontation with football people in 1968. Spearing, or the helmet to helmet and helmet to knees technique, was killing and maiming football players. ( still a problem ).

I believe I have been presient on several issues because of direct experience. Some serious ( Iraq, sports gambling–see news today, current events ). Probably have written more about International college tennis players than anybody. You can read about that growing like kudzu in college basketball in today’s news also.

Tennis evolution ( see dropshots , drop shot defense, topspin lobs, the circle stinger, match length).

Politics today ? James Carville amonished a mythical Oshkosh Wisconsin couple recently : ” You thought if you voted for Trump he’d get you that new refrigerator. But you f&^$#ed up. It ain’t happening. You made a mistake!”

The NO KINGS protest gave us our slogan ( “We are the leader we have been looking for.”)

Some see mocking him is the ploy. Carville doesn’t self censor much but

“Always remember, if you mud wrestle a pig, the pig likes it.”

From Dylan -IT’S ALRIGHT, MA

While one who sings with his tongue on fire
Gargles in the rat race choir
Bent out of shape from society’s pliers
Cares not to come up any higher
But rather get you down in the hole
That he’s in.

If he can’t stand criticism —-Enough paper cuts may do the job.

800 GENERALS

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Has there ever been a picture like it? Eight hundred faces all with the same look (“What a crock of crap!”).

The last couple of weeks have produced a lot of that look:

*Epstein

*Comey Inditement

* The Eulogy ( all GOD’S christian chilluns )

*Bomb Portland

* The AI of Schumer/ Jeffries

*SHUT IT DOWN

  • How many pushups can you do ? A draft dodger threatening those leaders?

What IS frightening is what if those 800 are afraid of those two.

“All we have to fear is fear itself!” (FDR)

Higher Education

On By ethomasparhamIn K. PHILOSOPHY, M. POLITICSLeave a comment

This is from an earlier article I wrote on March 19, 2025 (BALLOTS IN ) :

Will Universities indeed go bankrupt for actually endorsing “Academic Freedom?”

How about a DEI University? 

Am I mistaken?  Aren’t there alot of people who believe what we were  taught?

Got a dictionary?– See egregious. See exigency.  Endowment reserves?  This is war time:  Colleges and Universities, Administrations, Trustees, faculties, students, parents, donors,  public educators and public patriots.  Vote for education.  Your silence is a vote for Fear.

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Barack Obama spoke at Hamilton College on April 3, 2025. In concluding his talk he admonished American Higher Education to act rather than just talk. And cited endowments as the way to protect “academic freedom”

Don’t bow down.  

“There must be some way outta here, said the Joker to the Thief….”