When you get your butt kicked all sorts of lessons from history come to mind. But when that butt-kicking is self-inflicted the analogies narrow The lessons most learned from the Republicans’ self-immolation in the failure of their Obamacare repeal (sic)…
Category: History
Science versus God. Who will win?
Has anyone been able to explain “how” the ancient Egyptians built the Pyramids when most of the engineering skills they would have been required would not be discovered for millennia? Even the mathematics that would have supported their engineering technology was not supposedly…
The Devil and Mark Twain, CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien
Late in life Mark Twain had to go on the road to raise money to pay his creditors because he’d invested poorly. In the process he probably invented stand-up comedy, which Vaudeville probably stole. Over the years I’ve collected several of his one-liners. At one of his sessions…
Remember the Jacquerie
The law has become the common man’s prison.
Obama and FDR: Why the Longer Road to Recovery
What Obama is asking four more years for is to cement the damage. FDR designed the blueprint.