Archive for June 2018
Front Porch Week in America
Front Porch Week in America by David Benjamin MADISON, Wis. — The history of Rockford College — which stubbornly persists in treating me as an alumnus despite my departure after only three semesters — has no record of a campus group, in the late 1960s, called the Chapultepec Social Club (CSC). Although the school’s administrators at…
Read MoreHomeland Security comes to Maple Street
Homeland Security comes to Maple Street by David Benjamin “And when you prosecute the parents for coming in illegally, which should happen, you have to take the children away.” — Donald Trump “When you cross… illegally, when you commit a crime, you are taken away from your family because that’s how this country works.” — Corey…
Read MoreThe boyhood of the unraveling pants
The boyhood of the unraveling pants by David Benjamin MADISON, Wis. — As I was riding the Métro in Paris awhile back, face-to-face with a lovely young thing, I noted — with a familiar sense of perplexity — that both the knee areas in her custom-blemished Levi-Strauss 501 jeans were torn and ravaged, framing her lovely…
Read MoreValues clarification for football fans
Values clarification for football fans by David Benjamin “You can’t fine somebody for a peaceful protest. We’re not out here holding signs, saying we don’t care about the troops or we don’t care about our country or whatever. It’s a peaceful protest, and it’s something as simple as people just expressing themselves and how they…
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