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...Trumpet's more endearing qualities is its ability to rank on popular culture from all perspectives. They successfully fulfill their attempt at vicious comedy with songs such as "I Left my Gun in San Francisco," which is about killing hippies, sung from the point of view of the killer. Thom Bone, one of several loud bass players, warns all Birkenstock-wearers, "I'm an easy going guy/but I'm even more mellow when hippies...
...Thom Robb is a reconstructed racist. He calls himself the national director of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, eschewing the hoary title of Imperial Wizard. Indeed, the lower ranks have been defanged as well. There are no more Grand Dragons, no more Great Titans. Gone too are the robes and hoods. "We don't hate blacks," declares Robb, who assumed the leadership in 1989. "We just love whites...
Robb's diminution of the Klan's charter has not gone down well. "Thom Robb is a poor example of a Klansman. He comes off as a young Republican, not as a racialist," says David Neumann, 40, an auto-plant machinist who heads the Michigan chapter of the Knights. "He goes to great lengths not to say anything controversial that might alienate people from giving him money." In April, Ed Novak, born Ed Melkonian and an ex-lieutenant of Robb's, started a rival Klan out of Chicago. According to Klanwatch, based in Montgomery, Alabama, Novak's Federation of Klans...
...would adhd have evolved in the first place? Perhaps, like the sickle-cell trait, which can help thwart malaria, attention deficit confers an advantage in certain circumstances. In Attention Deficit Disorder: A Different Perception, author Thom Hartmann has laid out a controversial but appealing theory that the characteristics known today as adhd were vitally important in early hunting societies. They became a mixed blessing only when human societies turned agrarian, Hartmann suggests. "If you are walking in the night and see a little flash, distractibility would be a tremendous asset. Snap decision making, which we call impulsiveness, is a survival...
...Thom Jones' first book is a sheaf of extraordinary short stories, most of them about scarred, damaged men on the far side of violence. The viewpoint doesn't vary much: a straight-on, wondering stare back through the wreckage. The narrator of the superb title story cripples another Marine in a squabble during training, survives three tours of combat in Vietnam, then, overmatched in a prizefight and too stubborn to fall down, outpoints his opponent but suffers brain damage that leads to worsening epilepsy. "What a goddamn fool," he says of himself. He wrestles with Schopenhauer and Nietzsche without improving...