Listeners to the ICQ Podcast where I appear monthly as a Presenter probably heard me say that I was successfully treated for a highly aggressive prostate cancer (adenocarcinoma, Gleason 8) almost two years ago at the Mayo Clinic. While in Rochester for two weeks, I had a lot of time in bed recovering from the […]
My friends in political science used to talk a lot about “roll call voting” analysis over lunch in Perry Cafeteria at Mississippi State University. I was a member of the Faculty Forum who held a reserved anteroom for lunch in this beautiful arched building. I learned a lot from experts in other disciplines that a […]
Change has pulls and tugs toward the past and forward into the future We hear the word culture bandied about all the time. It means different things to different people. Social scientists define it as follows: Culture includes the shared belief systems, rituals, and conversational styles of small groups, as well as societally pervasive ways […]
Lewis Grizzard The famous Southern comedian, Lewis Grizzard, had many, many funny sayings. Some got Baptist churches riled up at times. One of those was the title to a comedy album released in 1985, “I’ve Seen England, I’ve Seen France, I’ve Seen Miss America Without Her Underpants.” Well, Lewis didn’t make an appearance at the […]