Today is the Martin
Luther King, Jr., holiday (as well as the day marking the official celebration
of the Presidential Inauguration). As great an American as Dr. King was,
however, this is not his birthday, which was last Tuesday, the 15th.
Today is the actual birthday of Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, though, which goes to show that history -- REAL history, and not the usual round of prostitution of our cultural memory to the political correctness of either the Left or the Right -- is every bit as messy and stubborn as the rest of Life.
Nature, famously, abhors a vacuum; Life harbors an equal vehemence against the tidy piles we insist on trying to sort it into.
Today is the actual birthday of Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, though, which goes to show that history -- REAL history, and not the usual round of prostitution of our cultural memory to the political correctness of either the Left or the Right -- is every bit as messy and stubborn as the rest of Life.
Nature, famously, abhors a vacuum; Life harbors an equal vehemence against the tidy piles we insist on trying to sort it into.
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