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Good jazz, good cause

Posted on October 23, 2026 by Doug Cumming
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Kamikaze Democrats in Kudzuland

Posted on October 13, 2026 by Doug Cumming

This 2,236-word report I re-assembled out of sections cut from a longer piece that was published in Chuck Reece’s online magazine Salvation South. https://www.salvationsouth.com/uncontested-state-legislative-races-south/ Also, the jazz combo I’m in, Saylor’s Knot, will be performing at Waller’s Coffee Shop in … Continue reading →

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“The God gap” in the midterms

Posted on October 5, 2026 by Doug Cumming

David French writes in the Times about “the God gap” in the current political landscape. His essay focuses on the Senate race in Texas, James Talarico (D) vs. Ken Paxton (R). The dark cloud obscuring the heavens is the reality … Continue reading →

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Artificial Inhumanity

Posted on September 12, 2026 by Doug Cumming

In the early 1970s, Lewis Thomas wrote an essay about computers that is painfully outdated now. I just re-read it in an old collection called The Penguin Book of America’s Best Essays. To me, reading Thomas’s “Computers” is painful because … Continue reading →

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“I’ll be seeing you”

Posted on August 3, 2026 by Doug Cumming

This next interlude is about the War Years at Tate. No one here remembers that, of course. But it divides the history of Tate in two. Before WWII, Tate had its golf course and lodge. It was in a bubble … Continue reading →

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The Five Deadly Virtues

Posted on April 30, 2026 by Doug Cumming

Like her hero Niccolò Machiavelli, Carol Darr delights in turning conventional (and Catholic) wisdom on its head. So in one chapter of her book Machiavelli 4 Everybody, being published next week, she describes five traditional virtues as “deadly” for a … Continue reading →

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Sic transit!

Posted on April 15, 2026 by Doug Cumming

Germans display their orderliness even in a labor strike. The pilots of Lufthansa joined their fellow workers by holding a two-day strike, April 13 and 14. Danke schön, I picture management negotiators saying, and promptly informing us by email that … Continue reading →

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No Kings draws more than 250

Posted on April 4, 2026 by Doug Cumming

Pickens County Progress, p. 2, April 1, 2026 By Doug Cumming/ Contributing Writer Among the millions protesting nationwide on Saturday, the peaceful two-hour “No Kings” rally lining a historic block of North Main Street was relatively small – an official … Continue reading →

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Letter to the Editor, Pickens County

Posted on February 26, 2026 by Doug Cumming

Feb. 25, 2026 Editor: As incumbent Republicans around north Georgia re-think their careers, the tone of the two parties is changing in ways that might surprise you. National attention is on Congressional District 14, which Marjorie Taylor Greene left open … Continue reading →

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A Democratic Party “Contract for America”

Posted on January 14, 2026 by Doug Cumming

In May 1994, a conservative politics professor who would be my colleague at Washington and Lee University years later, Bill Connelly, was co-author of a new book on why Republicans were forever losing in Congress. It was titled, Congress’ Permanent Minority: … Continue reading →

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