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Paterno Delenda Est

by RIS Secure | Jul 25, 2012 | Archive, Southern Partisan

With the announcement July 23 of the unprecedented sanctions against the Penn State football program by the NCAA, many have been quick to accuse the NCAA of going too far, of acting out of a false sense of urgency, of overstepping its bounds and of punishing unfairly...

Cartoon

by RIS Secure | Jul 23, 2012 | Archive

News from Around the South

by RIS Secure | Jul 20, 2012 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Alabama: Historian Names 10 Most Pivotal Events in State History (http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2012/07/alabama_archives_director_name.html) MONTGOMERY — The days when men first walked on the moon and people first set foot in what is now Alabama are two of the 15...

First Jobs

by RIS Secure | Jul 19, 2012 | Archive, Southern Partisan

What was your first job? I stuck pieces of plastic and metal together at an Evanston, Ill., assembly line. We produced photocopiers for a company called American Photocopy. I hated the work. It was hot and boring. But it was useful. It taught me to get good grades in...

Movie Review: ‘Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter’

by RIS Secure | Jul 12, 2012 | Archive, Southern Partisan

If you take cheese and form it into a ball, you got yourself a cheeseball. If you take a historical figure, add a cheesy conceit and proceed to make a movie out of it, it should come as no surprise to anyone that what you get is a cheeseball of a movie. And terming...

The Dickey I Knew: A Death at 15

by RIS Secure | Jul 11, 2012 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Surrounded by stacks of yellowed books, resting in a stained yellow chair and imprisoned in a ruined yellow body just two months from collapse, James Dickey’s eyes welled with tears he made no effort to conceal. It’s been 15 years since his death and 40...