Recommendations The Romans SimonSeptember 19, 20120 One of my book groups recently read The Fall of the Roman Empire by Peter Heather. It was a bit of a slog getting...
Simon Says To Be Young Again SimonSeptember 14, 20120 Jim Stillman and Simon Burrow in Schenectady, NY circa 1966 "If you weren't liberal when you were young, you have...
Maxims September 13, 2012 Maxim SimonSeptember 13, 20120 "Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt." Herbert Hoover Hoover was President of the US...
Simon Says Free Ice Cream SimonSeptember 12, 20121 The Cow and the Ice Cream A story told by a 3rd grade teacher The most eye-opening civics lesson I ever had was...
Politics The Harvest SimonSeptember 10, 20120 All farmers know that it is easy in the spring to predict a bumper crop. And in the summer as the fields grow to...
Postcards Simon Says Postcards 09/05/2012 SimonSeptember 5, 20120 The scariest fact I learned in Berlin was that it only took the Nazi's 12 years (1933 - 1945)...
Politics The Dead Horse Theory SimonAugust 30, 20120 The Dead Horse Theory of Bureaucracy The tribal wisdom of the US Plains Indians, passed on from generation to...
Postcards Simon Says Postcards 8/28/2102 SimonAugust 28, 20120 Circa 1200 in Rothenburg they passed a compulsory tax to build city walls. This was followed by taxes to have...
Maxims August 23, 2012 Maxim SimonAugust 23, 20120 "Economic Nationalism is Racism" Harry Binswanger in Forbes Magazine 8/20/2012 "People their products and their...
Maxims Boris Johnson SimonAugust 20, 20120 "My policy on cake is having it and eating it." Boris Johnson Lord Mayor of London and Political Hero of the...