Keith Brumley
Have ?pretty thoughts? when vulnerable
Keith Brumley A person could do worse than have pretty thoughts. Sometimes it’s all we have8212;and always when we’re most vulnerable. Take the winter of 1995. It hadn’t snowed, and though the ground had frozen hard and deep, I was starting colts into December. My facilities were outside, but I’d figured to hang on until [...]
What?s to come after Mubarak era?
Keith BrumleyColumnist In a matter of 18 days, a non-violent populist revolution led by no one in particular toppled the authoritarian regime of Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak. Beginning Jan. 25 with a Twitter feed protesting the death of Khale Said spreading through the air like the pollen of a germinated seed, people began to gather [...]
A chance to catch up with friends at stock show
Keith BrumleyColumnist I’m headed for the Stock Show8212;and I don’t care how cold it might be. As the song goes, “I’ve got a heater in my truck and I’m off to the rodeo . . .” This is the Black Hills Stock Show in Rapid City: conceived by SDSU alumnus Jim Sutton, son of James [...]
How buying a guitar is comparable to buying a used car
Keith BrumleyColumnist It wasn’t that tough of a choice. Buy a bronc saddle, get fit, and crack out in the senior saddle bronc riding or buy a guitar. Since I’m scheduled for a hip replacement later this month, I went for the guitar. After two weeks, I can now proudly pick out the melody of [...]
Frozen food?s greatest achievement: the frozen burrito
Keith BrumleyColumnist It’s a difficult process; simple in concept but difficult to master. The variables, at least on the surface, are few. As one grows more involved, however, it becomes clear that this is not just cooking; it’s an art form. I’m talking about frozen burritos. They’ve been around for half a century and with [...]
COLUMN: Columnist shares the breathtaking story of a one extraordinary graduate student
Keith BrumleyColumnist “Life,” playwright Randy Achterhoff wrote, “is not about the number of breaths we take, but moments that take our breath away.” To be sure, the story of Geng Lang Zhou, SDSU instructor of Mandarin Chinese and journalism graduate student, is breathtaking. Zhou’s father cared deeply about his nation. He became a member of [...]
Whimsies can be a barrier to quality relationships
Keith BrumleyColumnist One of my friends put it this way: “The problem with the perfect woman is that she’s looking for the perfect man … and vice versa.” This requires an assumption that no one is forever perfect. What’s ideal, however one defines it, is fleeting and momentary. Still, you’d think relationships wouldn’t be so [...]
There was no transcendental experience, just an anthill
Keith BrumleyColumnist I was hitchhiking to the West Coast and back during the last month of summer vacation. I’d been given lifts by a treasure hunter, an economics professor, a vacationing couple from South Dakota and a police officer who’d been kind enough to shuttle me from the east to the west side of Battle [...]
Afghanistan: Test Ground for hope?
Keith Brumley?Columner? It’s never what you think. Spin doctors from the U.S. and NATO paint a picture of slow but consistent progress in the battle against Afghan insurgents and a steady progression toward representational democracy. Afghan citizens however, may see it another way. Matthew Natuli, a frequent contributor to the Kabul Press points out that [...]
Definitions of political correctness changes with times
Keith Brumley?Post-neo-radical-moderate-intra-structural . . . guy ? Most of us, when fascism comes up, think of Adolf Hitler. Fascism, however, is a term used by Italian dissidents after WWI culminating in Benito Mussolini’s rise to power. Mussolini for a while, was praised by everyone from American humorist Will Rogers to Winston Churchill, and even Sigmund [...]
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