Note the dates: “16 Candles” was a celebration song about coming-of-age in the 50s, when teenagers were taking over the music market with their 45rpm record changers. My sister got one her 16th birthday in ’58, two years before she…
Category: How Things Work
Assassins and America’s Coming Mental Breakdown
(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…
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…