Mexico Lindo, A Brief History
Three men, standing at the Mexican border, looking south:
Man #1: Mexico Lindo.
Man #2: I don't see nothin' so 'lindo' about it.
Man #3: Just looks like more of Texas to me.
Man #1: You have no eyes!
(Iconic lines...
Just How Important is Public Education and Private Education?
This will probably become an outline of a series since, as I took down some notes about various aspects of both public and private school education I quickly realized one could come at this...
First Principles about America; First Questions
Is America an accident? A freak of Nature? Or, is America the product of Intelligent Design?
I don’t intend to try to answer the second half of that question here as that requires an inquiry into philosophy...
A Memo to President Trump: Beware of the Green Card Bias
This is a hard subject to talk about.
President Trump and I belong to a generation when the natural law of "becoming American" was still operational, even for Indians who immigrated here in the 1960s....
American Exceptionalism #17: The American How-To Book
I'll get to #'s 1 thru 16 later. We've talked about them before.
Note the book cover, which I only ran across a week or so ago. It was printed in 1908, in New York,...
Where is Matt? After a Decade’s Slide into Darkness (Revised)
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 anything about the shoulders they...