What Was I Thinking I am an optimist. I think it is realistic to strive to eliminate extreme poverty in the world and over time provide all of humanity with the opportunity for a prosperous life. So w...Read More
What Was I Thinking About Israel Nowadays most of our politics is about what outrage President Trump has perpetrated this week. The national press has shown itself to be extremely biased against the p...Read More
WWIT What Was I Thinking About Mass Shootings Last week there were two shooting incidents in the US that made headlines, and required political responses. The shootings were horrible young white men u...Read More
In 1969 I was in Vietnam making the world safe for democracy so I was out of town when Neal Armstrong took that first step. But that was the only year that I ever consistently kept a diary. (auto corr...Read More
It was sad to see the ashes of Notre Dame Cathedral. It was even sadder to see the graffiti all over Paris. It looks like the French have surrendered to this scourge of our times. It makes me very sad...Read More
A waterfall makes noise but its power comes from its moving water. Likewise the noise coming from Washington is entertaining but the power is in the tax code. Photo of an old mill in Bayeux, France....Read More
In 1924 American Indians were granted full citizenship by an act of the US Congress. It wasn’t until 1948 that Arizona allowed Indians to vote. From The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer...Read More
A coal barge on the Tombigbee Waterway is really eight barges tied together. It is pushed by a tug and makes about five knots. The tug captains are a very nice bunch of people who have risen to the to...Read More
Reparations for Slavery Reparation hearings have started again in Washington DC and I think that it is something we should think about. It seems to me that reparations should be paid to the people who...Read More
The instincts and attitudes of a septuagenarian rarely change much. In your 40’s your eyes go bad, in your 60’s your hearing goes bad and in your 70’s your ability to change vanishes...Read More