Mary Grabar earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of Georgia and teaches in the Atlanta area. A Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and published fiction writer, she is shopping her novel manuscripts, "Dancing with Derrida," a satire on the postmodern academy and sexual revolutionists, and "The Secret of Little Sister," a literary mystery. Visit her website and get on her mailing list at marygrabar.com. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2008 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Sun, 22 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT Sun, 22 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ When I heard that a major part of Barack Obama's resume included a stint as a "community organizer," I asked myself what the term meant. It's sort of like "activist." I had alw http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2008/06/22/you_need_a_weatherman_to_tell_which_way_obama_will_go 128b56b3-8439-4e25-a973-b969f332097c Sun, 22 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT It appears that my use of war metaphors in the opening paragraph of my last column confused a number of people, including someone who blogs at both the American Spectator and the Huffington Post.* * My sentence,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2008/06/15/metaphors_for_dummies* 439b3b26-09c4-45fe-aa56-3e24b5387912 Sun, 15 Jun 2008 04:00:27 GMT An Obama presidency would signal the final salvo by the Left in the culture wars. Obama's advance troops have already taken over our college campuses, have bound and gagged our conservative professors, have ravished... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2008/06/09/obama's_presidency_victory_in_the_culture_wars 402f0f58-4a4c-41d6-bcfd-23fddadfdf45 Mon, 09 Jun 2008 04:00:26 GMT "All's fair in love and war." For men of a certain ideological stripe that's true. One of my 80-year-old relatives tells about her experiences as a teenage girl during World War II. Her... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2008/05/26/love_and_war b7ec626c-6877-445b-ac0a-90a4882eed6d Mon, 26 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT "Back in my little town," as the song goes, there is "nothing but the dead and dying." Well, if you want to take the northeast section of Rochester, New York, once a neighborhood of plain, but well-kept, houses, as a l http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2008/05/25/h_rap_brown,_jeremiah_wright,_and_the_wisdom_of_an_aging_mine_electrician 45162754-c6f7-42ac-9dbe-1afcc7c3cdef Sun, 25 May 2008 04:00:27 GMT One of the unwritten codes for white teachers teaching in public schools has been that when it comes time to discipline a black student, the task should be left to another black teacher or administrator. This is to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2008/05/10/assaults_on_teachers_not_just_for_crackers_anymore b4346d26-2516-436e-b182-8eeeb8570bb9 Sat, 10 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT In my ignorance, I once held hopes of gaining entrance into a club more exclusive than any country club or nightclub. Having been educated in public schools and therefore exposed to only one form of thought, I... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2008/05/04/because_they_wouldnt_let_me_in_their_club 4914fda3-d925-427d-9c4c-4eb76039b308 Sun, 04 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT On a National Public Radio story about violence against teachers, a male high school teacher who suffered permanent injuries from an attack by a student reflected back on the experience and mused that... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2008/04/27/welcome_back,_teach,_but_learn_self-defense_first b35ab7bb-8dd0-45e5-b0bc-1d3a220736e0 Sun, 27 Apr 2008 04:01:00 GMT We know who you're talking about, Barack Obama, when you talk about Pennsylvania and the Midwest, about small towns where the jobs have left. We know who you're talking about when you talk about those who "get bitter"... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2008/04/20/yes,_barack_obama,_we_are_bitter 43effda0-cd3c-4d99-87fb-1107f6f99056 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:58:23 GMT When I saw the banner held by the ten "brave" grannies arrested for protesting the Iraq War in front of an Atlanta Army recruiting station on March 17, and the same tag in the YouTube video by an aspiring... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2008/04/06/granny_did_not_get_run_over_by_a_tank fe584806-cd94-406b-abcc-27373cfe7c55 Sun, 06 Apr 2008 04:01:00 GMT As predictable as a college freshman telling me that the "A" sewn on Hester Prynne's dress symbolizes Puritanical hypocrisy were the commentaries about the Puritanical hypocrisy of the prosecution of men (like Eliot... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2008/03/30/the_letter_"a,"_spitzer,_and_the_misrepresentation_of_puritanism 24c728d2-b6b0-48d7-be61-96e3da4e88ba Sun, 30 Mar 2008 04:01:00 GMT Who would have thought that the gender-barrier crusader Hillary Clinton would be in such a tight race against a candidate before whom young women swoon? Talk about vestiges of patriarchy! Nothing like this ha http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2008/03/10/poets_against_obamamania 9e95922e-725b-4857-89a0-e75e94c57d3e Mon, 10 Mar 2008 04:01:00 GMT Books attacking religion, particularly Christianity, have earned quite a bit of money recently for publishers and their authors. Pundits are now having a field day attacking Mike Huckabee's stance on evoluti http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2008/02/17/huckabee_and_modern-day_clarence_darrows_inheriting_the_wind_on_evolution 09a95a09-00e4-4ced-84aa-d27820490d00 Sun, 17 Feb 2008 05:01:00 GMT As I wind down from this semester of teaching everything from prepositional phrases to Paradise Lost, I'd thought I'd share my own list of recommended reading. These are not political, pared-down http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2007/12/26/recommended_reading_for_2008 4cf85487-8e08-4653-992b-f7d0dd97d152 Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:31:05 GMT I get some pretty irate emails from anonymous readers, but I have yet to be threatened with a lawsuit from someone who does not identify herself except by the return address: Nikol@MidwestTeenSexShow.com. This is what... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2007/12/23/anonymous_at_the_midwest_teen_sex_show_threatens_to_sue_me e55f8b81-1969-4bd3-a834-7e456e1e5a79 Sun, 23 Dec 2007 05:01:00 GMT