The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    Welcome to the Creative Corner

    By Michael Wolraich on Wed, 12/01/2010 - 12:10pm |

    Welcome dagsters. This is a new section for featuring all the creative talent that we have at dagblog. Please contribute poetry, fiction, art, photography by clicking the Create now! button at the bottom of the new CREATIVE CORNER block in the left sidebar.

    I have one request. People often take their creative work much more personally than nonfiction blog posts. In the comment threads, please be respectful of the material and sensitive to the artists who contribute here. If you offer criticism, please make sure that it's constructive, and try to balance your critique with praise for the work's strengths. As my mother used to admonish: if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it.

    Thanks. I look forward to the contributions.

    Genghis

    Comments

    Oops. Sorry. I'll post separately...


    by MrSmith1 on Wed, 12/01/2010 - 2:32pm

    Thank you for this new venue. 


    by wws on Wed, 12/01/2010 - 3:09pm

    It is already filling with great things! Nice Genghis, very awesome. It is already really fun to read.


    by tmccarthy0 on Wed, 12/01/2010 - 3:27pm

    I'm glad. I didn't expect so much content so quickly. I hope that folks keep it up.


    by Michael Wolraich on Wed, 12/01/2010 - 5:26pm

    This is somewhat off-topic, but are you planning another book?  I think a useful topic would be the short-lived rise of the New Left and how they fucked liberalism up for a generation (at least).   


    by brewmn on Wed, 12/01/2010 - 4:22pm

    That is a good topic. I don't completely agree with the thesis. That is, I don't think that the New Left fucked liberalsm so much as failed to save it. But there's good stuff there nonetheless. I'm pursuing another topic right now--government dysfunction--but I'll keep this in mind.


    by Michael Wolraich on Wed, 12/01/2010 - 5:25pm

    Of course, I phrased it somewhat provocatively (my fans would expect nothing less).  I really would like to find a balanced book on the effect that the hippies, Black Power, etc. had on center-left politics in the 60's and 70's.  There are lessons to be learned from that time that I don't think we've been able to come to terms with and integrate into a workable progressive program, supported by a majority of American voters, even four decades later.


    by brewmn on Thu, 12/02/2010 - 11:01am