 Dr. Dave and pet pig Monica
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After almost getting expelled for exposing his prep school's outrages in the Boston press, David Williams spent 1968 crossing the Pacific in the merchant marine and fighting the Vietnam War in the peace movement. Wanted in Oregon for jaywalking, be hitchhiked home to enjoy the mayhem of the Sixties at Harvard where he occasionally attended classes. After a lost post-graduate year, still unexplained, he entered Harvard Divinity School to determine the meaning of the word "God." Chosen Baccalaureate speaker, he preached a jeremiad that caused one professor to goose-step off the stage in protest. He later got married, fathered two sons, Nathan and Sam, and entered the American Civ Program at Brown where his weekly column offended every faction on campus. He ended up in Virginia working in a vineyard and teaching full time as a "part-time" college professor at George Mason University where he was honored with the year 2000 "Teaching Excellence Award." Escaping from the Marxists in the English Department, he spent a Fullbright year in Slovakia confirming his hosts' suspicionsabout Americans. Back home, his wife replaced him with an unemployed redneck and his university passed him over for more politically-correct hirelings. He now lives in Swampoodle, an abandoned black community in a Virginia swamp, writing, grading sophomore papers, and brewing his own bitter beer.
His own essays on Charles Manson, Thelma & Louise, Dylan &Dickinson, John Winthrop, Lord Loudoun, and Hard Cider in America, along with his academic CV and other trivia can be found on his George Mason web page.
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