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***Almost everything in this article comes from Bryan Burrough’s excellent book: “Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence”. In addition to the Weather Underground, the book covers groups including the Black Liberation Army, the Puerto Rican separatist group FALN, and the Symbionese Liberation Army. I highly recommend it. Last week, as protests at Columbia University began to capture the nation’s attention, this trended on Twitter:

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On March 7th, 1986, CBS aired the 13th episode of The Twilight Zone, an installment of the classic, Rod Serling-created series’ mid-’80s revival. It’s safe to say that, somewhere in Virginia, future Donnie Darko and Southland Tales director Richard Kelly was watching. The series had debuted with much fanfare the previous fall but had since struggled in the ratings. Though never the cultural force of the original, the revived Twilight Zone remained appointment viewing for those of a certain age and sensibility, impressionable viewers who’d be haunted by, say, the story of a woman who learned how to pause time who ended up trapped in the moment before a nuclear apocalypse or a mathematician who finds a loophole while matching wits with a demon.

In past articles on pedagogical principles I noted that  the principles of festina lente and multum non multa are closely related like sisters. If these two sisters have a mother it would have to be memory. In Greek mythology, memory or Mnemosyne ( nee-mos-uh-nee)  is the mother of nine daughters that were called the muses. These muses include a muse for history, poetry, singing, dancing, and even astronomy. As the myth indicates, memory gives birth to many important muse-ical arts.

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There has never been more hate in the world than there is today. It sounds like an exaggeration but when we study the term ressentiment it becomes obvious that because of our modern value system there has never been so much hate to go around. Negative as this sounds, this very same potential for hate is also the birth canal of all our progress including… ncG1vNJzZmismJq5qsLIp56poJmhvLS7z6GwZ6ull8C1rcKkZZynnWS9cL7ErKqepqSeuqa602aroZ1drLyzuMNmoKaooqTDqrrG

Louise Hudson, universally known as “Mama Louise,” passed away this week. She was an amazing woman and I’m so happy that I knew her, spent some time with her and helped spread word of her story at least a little bit with One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band. The greatest thing about Louise is she became famous for 50 years just because she was kind; she gave the members of the Allman Brothers Band free food when they had no money.

On December 27, 2023, actor Lee Sun-kyun died by apparent suicide. Alarmed by finding what appeared to be a suicide note, his wife — the actress Jeon Hye-jin — called the police. By the time they reached him in central Seoul, he was dead. Though the autopsy report is yet to come, experts are speculating that he died of carbon monoxide poisoning from the charcoal-burning briquette found in the passenger seat of his car.

The late Teresa Taylor, working alongside her “twin brother” King Coffey in the Butthole Surfers’ engine room sometime in the ‘80s. (Photo by Keri Pickett. Taken at Tin Pan Alley, NYC, 1985)“Boy, does this imminent death, coupled with a birthday, really bring the love out. I am overwhelmed by all the messages I have received,” she posted on her Facebook wall the day of her 60th birthday, Nov. 10th, 2022. It was the first news I had received that Teresa “Nervosa” Taylor – who, alongside her fellow Butthole Surfers, had long-kidded the public that she and co-drummer King Coffey were twins – was dying and in hospice.