Tag Archives: Mark Twain

Michael James :
Coin, Durango & Hannibal: On the road with Jesse James, 1979

Posted on December 10, 2014 by Thorne Dreyer

By noon Jesse and I were on the road, rolling west toward Durango, Colorado, to visit my ex-pro-football-playing friend David Meggyesy. By Michael James | The Rag Blog | December 10, 2014 [In this series, Michael James is sharing images … Continue reading →

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Lamar W. Hankins : The Bowdlerizing of Huckleberry Finn

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Thorne Dreyer

Huck and Jim. Image from Teachers.ash.org.The bowdlerizing of Huckleberry Finn By Lamar W. Hankins / The Rag Blog / January 19, 2011 A recent commentary by Leonard Pitts in the Miami Herald explained a significant problem with publication of a … Continue reading →

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Lamar W. Hankins : After Veterans Day, Business As Usual

Posted on November 17, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Photo by John Gomez / AP.Now, back to Fox News…Veterans’ Day is over Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth … Continue reading →

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Concerning Mark Twain’s ‘War Prayer’ and the ‘Right to Life.’

Posted on October 30, 2008 by Thorne Dreyer

Photo by Alex Wong / Getty Images.‘In every presidential election for the past several decades we hear a hue and cry from the citizens who represent the “right to life” movement.’By Dr. S. R. Keister / The Rag Blog / … Continue reading →

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