Monthly Archives: February 2015

Barry’s Blog # 125: American Witch-Hunt, Part Three of Six

Keep watching the Sky. Stay vigilant against another attack. – The War of the Worlds, 1953 Nineteenth century scholars saw hysteria in accounts of Dionysian cults rather than recognizing the god behind hysterical behavior. In the 1930s, Life Magazine published … Continue reading

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Barry’s Blog # 124: American Witch-Hunt, Part Two of Six

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. – Benjamin Franklin In a land where, since the beginning, our identity has been so bound up in racial purity, the ultimate terror has always … Continue reading

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Barry’s Blog # 123: American Witch-Hunt, Part One of Six

The Lord doth terrible things amongst us, by lengthening the chain of the roaring lion in an extraordinary manner, so that the Devil is come down in great wrath. – Deodat Lawson, witch-hunter …divide us those in darkness from the … Continue reading

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Barry’s Blog # 122: Driving Dixie Down, Part Two of Two

In the Bible Cain slew Abel and East of Eden he was cast. You’re born into this life paying for the sins of somebody else’s past. – Bruce Springsteen Here is the third Verse of The Night They Drove Old … Continue reading

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