Not so very long ago Americans knew who Charles Whitman was. On August 1, 1966, Charles Whitman shot 46 people from the 27th floor of the University of Texas Tower in Austin. Fifteen died. It shocked the country. The following week the cover of Life magazine was a sobering photograph of the UT Tower through a window with two bullet holes. The shooting was so horrifying and unique that the two major wire news organizations (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘2017’
who was that again?
Posted: October 2, 2017 in Observations and CommentaryTags: 2017, America, guns, Las Vegas, mass shootings, murder, shooting, society
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2017: the year that wasn’t
Posted: January 1, 2018 in Observations and CommentaryTags: 2017, 2018, America, expectations, life, society, Tom Petty
Man, the years keep on keeping on, don’t they? It seems like just yesterday when 2016 exploded into 2017 and the prospect of the new year brought with it an impending sense of doom which lurked just around the corner of January and 20th. We use “impending” as a harbinger, a warning that it is time to prepare for bad, bad juju because it will soon be spewing from every crevice and pore. One does not think of an impending ice cream cone or an impending night out at the cinema. No sir. Impending is saved for the serious shit – an impending (more…)