I promise to only do politics once a week and never on Facebook (almost) My bumper sticker contribution: My slogan contribution: This election is the Makers vs the Takers...Read More
One of my book groups recently read The Fall of the Roman Empire by Peter Heather. It was a bit of a slog getting through the book but it lead to an unusually animated discussion about whether the p...Read More
Jim Stillman and Simon Burrow in Schenectady, NY circa 1966 “If you weren’t liberal when you were young, you have no heart. If you’re still liberal when you’re older, you have ...Read More
“Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.” Herbert Hoover Hoover was President of the US from 1928 to 1932, at the start of the Depression ...Read More
The Cow and the Ice Cream A story told by a 3rd grade teacher The most eye-opening civics lesson I ever had was while teaching 3rd grade. The last Presidential election was heating up and some of the ...Read More
All farmers know that it is easy in the spring to predict a bumper crop. And in the summer as the fields grow to daydream about bounty. But in the autumn when the crops come in, the truth will be know...Read More
The scariest fact I learned in Berlin was that it only took the Nazi’s 12 years (1933 – 1945) to do so much damage. They were ruthless and confident and people went along. Berlin Holocau...Read More
The Dead Horse Theory of Bureaucracy The tribal wisdom of the US Plains Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says that “When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best ...Read More
Circa 1200 in Rothenburg they passed a compulsory tax to build city walls. This was followed by taxes to have city water, sewers and education. This explains the path we have inevitably followed...Read More