(A Teaching) Bet you didn’t know that the title term assassins comes from the Arab word, hashish, which was a very potent drug known all the way back to the Middle Ages and the Crusades? Some say they came from…
Category: How Things Work
Prussians, Monty Python and the Stupidity of Blind Believers; The Thinking Beneath the Thinking
In August, 1914, the first month of World War I, (then, also expected to be the last month), a German scientist, sitting with a group in Aachen which included Irvin S Cobb, then-journalist for the “Saturday Evening Post” (and highest…
When Atrocities go Unpunished They Become de facto Legal
(The featured art is from the British magazine “Punch” in September, 1914, and it reads “God and Women our Shield!”) World War I began in August, 1914, with an invasion by Kaiser Wilhelm’s Germany into France, essentially to finish a…
To be American, American Exceptionalism and Assimilation- How Things Worked
I think there is a general misconception of just what assimilation means to the ideal of “to be American”. To understand American exceptionalism you must first realize that it was created by the American people, not scholars nor political theoreticians. It…
Who, What, When, Where, Why and How?- Kipling’s Law
“I had six honest serving men who taught me all I know. They were, Who, What, Where, When, Why and How” That title line is from Rudyard Kipling, and who is also my first grandson’s namesake. Why my eldest son…