By Michael V. Hannigan A San Antonio atheist recently became the newest participant in Henderson County’s apparently-not-confined-to-Christmas nativity scene controversy. Patrick Greene this week emailed a letter to all members of Commissioners’ Court threatening a lawsuit if the nativity scene is not moved to private property. In an email interview with The Malakoff News, Greene
Dear Editor, My name is Patrick Greene. I live with my wife of 33 years Karen. We live in San Antonio. Mr. Richard Riehn wrote a letter to the editor on Dec. 20th last year, defending the Nativity scene and how Thomas Jefferson and the Founding Fathers
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The University Interscholastic League (UIL) conducted its bi-annual realignment Thursday. Here’s where area schools landed: Malakoff Football (Div. I, District 7-2A): Malakoff, Eustace, Grand Saline, Kemp, Lone Oak, Quitman, Winnsboro. Basketball (Div. I, District 13-2A): Malakoff, Dallas Faith Family, Dallas Life Oak Cliff, Eustace, Kemp, Palmer, Red Oak Life, Scurry-Rosser Cross Roads Football (Div. I,
By Lyn Dunsavage Special to The News Gardens filled with sculptures by internationally famous artists, including James Surls, will be open to the public Saturday, April 28 as a portion of an art tour starting in Malakoff and including a “drive-about” portion to focus on studios, galleries, and shops representing approximately 70 professional artists in
Jan
27
Posted by : | On : January 27, 2012
By Jeff Davis
I hear voices in the current Republican debates say that Social Security should be phased out. Ron Paul is probably the most straight forward in expressing this opinion. He says that people should start saving, and investing I suppose, for their retirement when they are young and unflinchingly continue throughout their lives.
Let me say at the outset where I stand; when I get my Social Security check each month
Jan
20
Posted by : | On : January 20, 2012
By Jeff Davis
In the 1920s, Prohibition was the law of the land. My knowledge of this era derives from movies and the Ken Burns television series and this being the case, the first thoughts that come to my mind are of speak-easys where people drank, danced energetically to jazz and rubbed elbows with gangsters.
Watching TV I might think that everybody got into the swing of being cool “prohibition style” but on second thought,
Jan
13
Posted by : | On : January 13, 2012
By Jeff Davis
There is a story about a person getting out of a taxi and giving the cabbie the exact amount shown on the meter.
As the man handed the money to the driver he asked, “Is this correct?”
“It’s correct,” the cabbie replied, “But it’s not right.”
Reader’s Digest had features, and maybe still does, that were half of a page or less in length, had names like “Famous Last Words” and “Life in These United States” and were humorous. In 1946 my folks gave me a book that was a collection of these pieces and the correct vs. right story comes from that book.
In the original a woman was getting out of a cab in New York City. And there was
Dec
19
Posted by : | On : December 19, 2011
By Jeff Davis
I am 76 years old and I have come to a realization. I know I’m dying, I feel it. I have no particular disease, I am just succumbing to the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics…I have grown old.
Of course I was dying as soon as I emerged from the womb; I suppose I was dying from whatever moment one might consider to be the beginning of my
Dec
09
Posted by : | On : December 9, 2011
By Jeff Davis
I was teaching a multiple section course, Calculus for the Biological and Social Sciences, and I gave a test at the end of the first two and a half weeks of the semester. There were a couple of exceptions but essentially the class did not have the foggiest idea of what was going on.
Obviously I was doing something wrong so I started all over from the beginning.
Ignoring the fact that the class hadn’t understood the first two and a half weeks, then assuming that they were going to understand
Dec
02
Posted by : | On : December 2, 2011
By Jeff Davis
I have always been fascinated by the brain, in particular the human brain. Actually, I have been fascinated by my brain, which is the only brain of which I have direct knowledge.
I suppose other human brains function pretty much like mine. They may have different hardwares but they are variations on a theme. The software
Nov
23
Posted by : | On : November 23, 2011
By Jeff Davis
I watch a lot of programs on PBS, Nature, Nova, History Detectives, Antiques Road Show that kind of program. I like to read books about things. There are a couple books about cosmology that I have read lately. I seem to have a thirst for knowledge.
But I wonder why.
In the beginning, when I started going to school, information was the grist for my mill. I didn’t know why
Nov
17
Posted by : | On : November 17, 2011
By Jeff Davis
History exists. I mean say, that in 1944 events occurred on June 6. Babies were born, men died on the beaches of Normandy, a boy and girl fell in love; all kinds of stuff happened. History happened. But a moment in history can never be recaptured.
We have film of Hitler speaking to massive crowds but we
Nov
11
Posted by : | On : November 11, 2011
I happened across an American Experience on PBS that was about whaling. I learned things I never knew before.
I had read “Moby Dick” and been bored by the extensive discussion of whaling but now I’m going to read it again. Copies of “Moby Dick” should come with a DVD of this particular American Experience to play before it is read.
Like “Apocalypse Now” should be seen
Nov
04
Posted by : | On : November 4, 2011
In 1969 I was in the pits of a motorcycle ½ mile flat track race in San Jose, California. The track was dirt and the motorcycles ran without brakes.
There were three classes: novice, who rode 250cc. motorcycles; amateur, who rode 750 cc motorcycles; expert, who rode 750 cc motorcycles.
The novices qualified by finishing high enough in qualifying heats. The amateurs and experts ran time trials with the top 20 in each class making the program. Then there were two ten-man heats, a trophy dash and a 12 man main.
But this particular afternoon the timing device was broken and a decision had
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