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 the end, is when citizens start…
Category: Business and Economy
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 from…
“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 have been her last salute. I…