Since foreign visitors to North Korea’s capital are so few (the airport has only one functioning runway), it is no surprise that those planning to stay a while have a narrow range of accommodations. There is the Koryo Hotel, the Sosan Hotel, the...
Stockholm syndrome is a loosely defined psychological condition in which hostages, against all logic, develop an alliance with their captors. Despite having been taken, sometimes violently, they develop an emotional bond and choose to remain...
After becoming an expat in November 2007, it took a while for me to get used to the sight of motor-scooter food delivery men blatantly disregarding traffic laws. They ride on sidewalks, they go the wrong way on one-way streets, they navigate...
Hey, Wilbanks Smith, I’m talking to you. I know you are 89 years old and probably fixing to die, but I’m going to give it to you straight. In no way, shape or form do I buy your explanation about what you did to Johnny Bright in the first quarter...
“It’s too early to declare victory.” This is what I tell my friends in the USA, Lebanon, Bolivia, Romania, Canada and the Philippines who express admiration for the Korean government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic over the last three or four...
What conference, alive or defunct, can boast three great football players at one position at the same time? The passage of more than 40 years notwithstanding, Southwest Conference fans still remember Steve Little of Arkansas, Russell Erxleben of...
How many hours have I spent coursing through YouTube as I savor Michael Jackson singing, dancing and moving with consummate élan as a member of the Jackson 5 and then as a solo artist, in huge concerts from Detroit to Bucharest, from Sao Paolo to...
My maternal grandmother, Katherine Jones Cox, was born in Natchitoches, Louisiana in 1900. Her father worked as an overseer on a nearby sugar plantation, a fact that has always caused me some discomfort. Grandmother, as we called her, died in...
Fire-breathing, all-knowing American social critic Camille Paglia has discoursed on, among other topics, the so-called world’s oldest profession: prostitution. According to Paglia, “The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men...
The following list does not include Doug English, Blake Johnson or Ricky Brockway because I have written about them (and to a lesser extent Bruce Gaw, Darrow Hooper and Quency Hill) elsewhere. I should apologize for a glaring gender imbalance, as...
I left Austin a long time ago (4,487 days ago, to be precise) and have never missed it. While I was there, however, I often listened to KUT, 90.5 on your FM dial. I donated to its bi-annual fundraisers and came to know several of its on-air...
In 1990, I dragged my then-girlfriend to the Texas Union Ballroom to hear Dr. John Edgar Wideman give a speech about Emmett Till. That would have been four years after a driving tour I took through the state of Mississippi; Greenville...
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