“I am Not Responsible! I am Not Responsible!”
You may not recognize this phrase much anymore, but in the 1960s it was a common plea, heard up and down the line at any railroad station in Delhi, Bombay, Cape Town, Singapore, and...
!950’s Cartoon Predicts the Future of America Today
A simple civics lesson, no longer taught in public schools, this cartoon is 9 minutes long, familiar cartoon characters if you're over 60, the only thing shown here no longer done by citizens, toward...
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...
“An Extremity of Nominal Democracy”
Barbara Tuchman was one of my two favorite historians, (the other is still alive). She published The First Salute in 1988, then died of a stroke early the next year, so this book was to...
Nike Swooshes America
So many pieces, so little time.
An awful lot of points of national survival converge from this little misstep by Nike in re the Matter of Colin Kaepernick as their new #JustDoIt poster boy.
The first piece of...
“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 South at the time...