... the dog woofs discontentedly

Not the best of starts on this enterprise. Two posts in six days. Monumental feat? The question of course has come up, why the hell is this Czar Parker? Thinking quite highly of yourself aren't you? Well, yes and no. As I have mentioned, I teach high school English - every other year I teach sophomores. One of the books I teach is Orwell's Animal Farm. In preparing the students, I usually spend a week or so going over the historical context of the book. The class researches and learns about the Czars (Nicholas II in particular) and the Bolshevik Revolution - the name of which always gets a good response from the crowd. A couple of years ago, as I was explaining some of the basics, I gave the example of, "say I was the czar and you guys were going to take over the classroom, who's support would you need?" Thus, Czar Parker was born. Inextricably, the name has stuck through the intervening years and has become a permanent fixture. I kind of like it.