Matt Harding was born in 1976, a Gen-Xer (1965-1980). That Generation is just as apt to cling to the old ways and standards of their parents (Baby Boomers, 1942-1964) as they are to become utterly nouveau, knowing little, if…
Category: Sage-isms
The Russian-Ukrainian Village, Evening Bells
In the 1960s I earned a minor in Russian Studies at university which interestingly enough, provided me with a lot of background to what I would observe when I visited Ukraine and central Russia in 1991 and 1992, when…
“Heaven for Climate, Hell for Society”, Hal Holbrook
You’d have to watch a lot of Hal Holbrook’s presentations to find the one quoted in the title. But I heard off an old LP from 40 years ago, and he was comparing the differences between the North and…
The Fatal Glass of Beer by W C Fields, 1933
Speaks for itself