Mr. Goon complained the other day in a private email that I seem to be slow blogging lately. True.
Reason being I’m formatting, proofreading and indexing my next book, for the second time (don’t ask), a 336-page history of my great grandfather’s 13th Mississippi Volunteer Infantry Regiment—mostly taken from my blog about it but with some new material. Trying to get it done and for sale at Amazon before Halloween.
Meanwhile, I’ll mention a recent post I read at Althouse, a favorite blog, on the American Indians complaining about the Cleveland Indians name and logo, not to mention the Washington Redskins. Commenters there (so many of them, whew) caught my interest, as usual.
One: The “Redskins should keep their nickname…but change their logo to a [new] potato.” Ha. No offense to Redskins QB RGIII, a fav of Baylor fans and other Texans who watch football.
Another: “I accept the Fighting Irish and the drunken Leprechaun logo, so I am free to tell (the Indians) to piss off.”
Best: “Truly, it seems like half the people in this country spend all day looking for some way to be a victim.”
My own take: Given all the immigrant Indians from India (and the relative paucity of American Indians) the Cleveland Indians ought to keep their name but change their logo to Lord Shiva, the Destroyer. Much more relevant nowadays.
Is that racist? Tough.
Via Althouse.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
For some strange reason that reminded me of a book I loved: Lord of Light by Zelazny
I don’t think I’ve ever read anything by him. Is it about Hindu gods?
I live out in the land of Ducks and Beavers, so who am I to comment?
It does remind me of the early 70s when Texas University had a movement to change the mascot to an armadillo, it being a really ecological animal. We (the Aggies) had some fun with that.
The wikipedia blurb isn’t bad.
Yeah, it’s about Hindu gods, but it’s a very different approach.
Must have been a minor movement, that armadillo thing. Too many ranchers and cattlemen among UT’s big donors.
The “Armadillo Movement” was last seen in the middle of US 290 west just east of Johnson City.
“Truly, it seems like half the people in this country spend all day looking for some way to be a victim.”
Bingo.
That and such as the Indian protest movement flexing its political muscle.
Armadillos: a rash of “dig ’em dillos!” bumper stickers were passed out, & on at least one occasion a series of burnt orange & white armadillos were released at half time during the A&M vs TU game.
The difference between then & now is that the armadillo movement would probably have a journalistically significant group of people supporting it.
That jogs my aging brain. The armadillo was the Austin hippie’s favorite symbol of the 1960s-70s. Armadillo World Headquarters was a seedy music venue in the old National Guard Armory near Lake Austin—torn down long ago to make room for a hi-rise office building the state then took for its agencies. The daily started using a ‘dillo in running shoes as the symbol of their Capitol 10K foot race back about 1977 and still does.