To Be Young Again
Jim Stillman and Simon Burrow in Schenectady, NY circa 1966 "If you weren't liberal when you were young, you have...
Author: Simon
September 13, 2012 Maxim
"Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt." Herbert Hoover Hoover was President of the US...
Free Ice Cream
The Cow and the Ice Cream A story told by a 3rd grade teacher The most eye-opening civics lesson I ever had was...
Simon Says Postcards 9/11/2012
"In a just cause the weak will beat the strong." Sophocles Synagogues in Prague More...
The Harvest
All farmers know that it is easy in the spring to predict a bumper crop. And in the summer as the fields grow to...
A Short History of Medicine
"Doctor, I have an ear ache." 2000 B.C. - "Here, eat this root." 1000 B.C. - "That root is heathen, say...
September 6, 2012 Maxim
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever. Germaine...
Simon Says Postcards 09/05/2012
The scariest fact I learned in Berlin was that it only took the Nazi's 12 years (1933 - 1945)...
The Dead Horse Theory
The Dead Horse Theory of Bureaucracy The tribal wisdom of the US Plains Indians, passed on from generation to...
The La-Z-Boy of Self-regard
Used in a sentence: "Ah, you think, Settling comfortably into the La-Z-Boy of self-regard, this is a matter with...
