A few days ago I mentioned a comment used by Mark Twain, more than once I’m told, to convey a broad principle that perhaps the French are a people that cannot be trusted. My own study of history, including French…
Category: Famous Commn People
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…
From a Paper War to Real War
Renewing a suggestion she made in 2021, Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene once again suggested a “national divorce” this past February. Now, I’m a fan of MTG because she sometimes calls a spade “a fritzing shovel”, and ever since the…
Famous Common People I Have Known, Mick Hensley
First written in 2010, my best known essay from my “Famous Common People I Have Known” series (also found individually here), I’d very much like to get published in bookshelf print format. I’d consider forwarding this to any person connected…
Artemus Ward, America’s Original “Cable Guy”, and his Interview With President Lincoln
As you know, there’s lots of talk about war right now, and just like 1860, it’s occurring at two levels, not one. And in that first war it was the bottom 70% who carried the day, not the upper-end beard…