William Lobb's Blog, page 16
August 13, 2020
Your Booming Economy
Here’s a couple question are you patriotic Trump supporters need to ask yourselves. If the battery in your car dies today, does that $150 expense impact how your kids eat next week? When you realize you need four new tires on the 20 year old F150, does that $800 expense present a financial crisis? When […]
August 6, 2020
From a Teacher
*** I created this collage with questions to show the different ways mental health can be looked at, when thinking of teaching: In-person/hybrid & virtual. These are just questions roaming around in my mind, and maybe they’re roaming around in yours!*** What is best, mentally, for our kids during a deadly pandemic? -Is it more […]
August 4, 2020
Hiroshima Nagasaki & Covid
I’ll just drop this here: Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, August 6 and 9, 1945 200,000 dead by December 1945 Covid 2020, 200,000 American dead by December 2020? Don’t be a idiot. Wear a mask.
July 31, 2020
Willin’
Alone in my red Ford, the Lowell George song Willin’ comes on the radio like an invasion from a lost and forgotten past life. Remembering sitting in a truck stop on the Trans-Canada highway, forty below zero at 3 am, watching it snow, seemingly without end into a whiteout. This pretty waitress, in a short […]
July 21, 2020
Freedom Fest, 2020
So, the other night, in Montgomery, the local republicans had a “freedom fest,” with fireworks. The hero-patriots got to sit in their cars and be socially distanced while they celebrated God knows exactly what. Thinking they were excited about: Babies in cages? Supession of the press? Capturing COVID statistics so the administration can twist the […]
July 16, 2020
Sunlight in July
There is a comfort in knowing if I stand in this exact place and look to the west, every July 15th at 6:34 am, when the sky is cloudless and clear, the sun will shine precisely on that spot, that rock. The trees around me will grow and die and fall, and the rock will […]
June 21, 2020
Father’s Day
My dad died so long ago I don’t remember much. I’ve not had much use for Father’s Day since 1965. I don’t think about him too often anymore. I wore a mustache in his honor for thirty years, hating it. One day I decided it had to go. It was a freeing moment. Maybe my […]
June 15, 2020
We Should Be Antifa
Dwight Eisenhower, a Republican, spoke of and warned us of the evils of the military-industrial complex in a 1962 speech. The Republican Party in 2020 is precisely the system Ike was describing in his farewell address Before you mindlessly speak of the “evils” of socialism, you need to study fascism and what exactly it means. […]
June 8, 2020
The Truth Is In The Water
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June 3, 2020
Rest In Peace, Champ
Shavers, Spinks, Holmes, and Berbick… The last fights were as important, as defining, as the early fights. As important as Rome in 1960, as important as Sonny Liston, as Joe Frazier, George Foreman. Ernie Terrell, 1967, learned his name was not Cassius Clay. Ali could never retire. Ali had to be whupped. That’s the thing […]
