Just How do We Sort Out This National-Divorce Talk? A Warning
In February, (2023), Congressional member Marjorie Taylor Greene called for a "National Divorce." Actually, one has been evolving for several years now.
The first thing to consider about "national divorces" is that they're almost never...
The Ease of Erasing History
I've always had an interest in the history of history.
For one, that historians are even remotely interested in the lives of ordinary people is a relatively modern notion. 3000 years ago, even 600 years ago,...
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....
The Shotgun and Rewriting History
From an old grizzled veteran (my age) named Mike, who contributed a lot of wisdom to our Veterans'Tales site for a few years:
You're asleep when you hear a thump outside your bedroom door. Half-awake, and nearly ...
The Media and America’s Schedule X
Schedule X is not a tax form. During the Vietnam War the Schedule X was a government form that offices in military commands used to tell higher ups how we spent our day on the...
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...