Showing posts with label Vaclav Havel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vaclav Havel. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 06, 2019

There's got to be a morning after.

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The Poseidon Adventure (1972) was a cheesy disaster flick about a capsized luxury liner and the efforts of survivors to escape hell, upsid...
Tuesday, April 09, 2019

NA Social's about to be dead, so "Long Live NA Social."

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Surely my favorite of all Vaclav Havel quotes is this one. “You do not become a ''dissident'' just because you decide ...
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Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Three reminders of rock music's role in defeating the Communist bogey man.

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I intend to watch this soon. ​FREE TO ROCK is a documentary film directed by 4-time Emmy winning filmmaker Jim Brown and narrated by ...
Thursday, April 12, 2018

ON THE AVENUES REWOUND: In Havel, I trust.

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ON THE AVENUES REWOUND: In Havel, I trust. A weekly column by Roger A. Baylor. I'm not ill, but I need a personal day. Two Food ...
Monday, April 24, 2017

Back by popular demand: “Never trust anyone wearing a suit.”

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I don't hate on men (or women) just because they wear suits. It's just that one's fundamental humanity need not be reflected b...
Sunday, October 25, 2015

The Baylor for Mayor meme, October 25: Truth and circumstances.

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From October 12, 2015: Commentary worth repeating: Gahan's "balanced budget" claims are bogus.
Thursday, May 07, 2015

ON THE AVENUES: In Havel I trust.

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ON THE AVENUES: In Havel I trust. A weekly web column by Roger A. Baylor. There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our miser...
Monday, April 06, 2015

Flashback: "Suit yourself. Plaid?"

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It's 2015, and I'm reading a biography of Václav Havel: Havel: A Life , by Michael Zantovsky. The secret police also came for ...
Sunday, December 18, 2011

Václav Havel, civil society and the New Albany Syndrome.

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It wasn’t until I began planning European travel extravaganzas during the Ronald Reagan era that the name Václav Havel meant very much to me...

R.I.P. Václav Havel.

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Thought ... what a concept. First Hitchens, and now Havel; the grim reaper is having a pre-Christmas harvest spree, taking men of letters as...
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Thursday, November 13, 2008

REWIND: Bile, loathing and a civil society.

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The following, the first of two going out to our community's "small government" adherents, was originally published in April, ...
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Monday, January 07, 2008

REWIND: Bile, loathing and a civil society.

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The following, the first of two going out to Daniel in the "small government" exurb, was originally published in April, 2006 under...