Dirty Boots: Having an Open Mind

Dirty Boots: Irregular Attempts at Critical Thinking and Border Crossing offers a Deep Southern, Generation X perspective on the culture, politics, and general milieu of the 21st century. On the back of my old 1983 Toyota Celica hatchback, I used to have a bumper sticker that read “Minds are like parachutes. They only function when open.” I drove that car from 1992 until 1998 and, while in traffic, would periodically get honks and signs of approval for the sticker. Rarer were the times when some antagonist – at a gas… Read more Dirty Boots: Having an Open Mind →