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RULES TO NOMINATE A NOBEL PRIZE FOR BLOGGERS

After Dylan it’s coming, a Nobel Prize for bloggers. If the times they are a changing, don’t get in the way, and the best change I can see is a Nobel Prize for bloggers. You’ve got your novelists, poets, playwrites, all deserving honor. Add blogger to the list, but with a few distinctions. Like no […]

GRADING NOBEL PRIZES ON THE IMMIGRANT CURVE

American Nobel Prize winners ruin the immigrant curve. So far six Americans won Nobel Prizes in 2016. All are immigrants. Nor does this year’s success of immigrants to the US appear to be a one-off.  After analysing Nobel winners, Stuart Anderson, of the National Foundation for American Policy, found that immigrants have won 40 per […]

THE AMERICAN JOB? BE A GOOD CITIZEN

The American job comes with a Mission Statement, Code of Conduct, and Job Description. Talk to people who came to America after WWII and hear their citizenship story. They came from bombed out nations to find a new life. They came for the American job and learned the job of being an American along the […]

Pat Conroy’s Nobel Prize

It hasn’t happened yet, but BoomerPDX predicts it For Pat Conroy. The name Santini means one thing: Pat Conroy. And he might come to your town. Maybe not your own town, but lots of them on this version of Book Tour. If you’ve seen Mr. Conroy’s reading/signing, tell boomerpdx how it went. Most authors do […]