by admin | Jan 18, 2017 | Books, History
I’ve decided to create a portmanteau – “Twiss” – a combination of Tweet and Diss. Since twist is already a word, it might not work, but we’ll see how it goes. And of course the Twisser In Chief is Donald Trump. Donald Trump...
by admin | Jan 15, 2017 | History
One of my early blogging goals was to become the “Tom Sawyer” of blogging by getting other people to create material for me. Sadly one of the occasional edicts from forbes.com put an end to that plan on my primary blog, but I have carried it on here and...
by admin | Dec 19, 2016 | Books, History
Off and on, I have been reading The Earth Is Weeping – The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West by Peter Cozzens. It is, of course, a very sad story, one that cries out for there had to be a better way. Regardless, it is well done and rich in...
by admin | Nov 14, 2016 | History
The system is rigged in favor of anyone who excels at getting her or himself educated to the graduate degree level and then working hard for decades. See, e.g., Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Condi Rice, Colin Powell, almost all of the infamous 1%. The quote above is...
by admin | Nov 8, 2016 | History
One of the reliefs of post-election will be the end of campaign appeals in my inbox. It is my own fault, as I sign up for everything in the hope of getting material for my blog. I think they are all written by the same person and they are all done in a very annoying...
by admin | Nov 8, 2016 | History
We went to the Unitarian Universalist Church of Worcester to watch the results. First discussion was what station to watch. I was for Fox since I thought we might learn more. Not a lot of enthusiasm for that, but we switched there during MSNBC commercial. Bill...
