A furor erupted when Dr. Daniel Ellsburg released the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times on June 13, 1971, forty-nine years ago. Commissioned by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, the report covered the history of America’s political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945-1967. It exposed the many lies and deceptions perpetrated by the […]
Last year, I read “Paris 1919, Six Months that Changed the World,” Margaret MacMillan’s best seller published in 2001. This book told about the Treaty of Versailles signed on June 28, 1919, which ended World War I. She covered the difficult challenges, personalities, issues, and disappointments that the Allies confronted. I thought the treaty’s main […]
Benjamin Disraeli has always fascinated me. He was the only British prime minister of Jewish ancestry although he converted to the Anglican Church at age twelve. In class conscious England during the 19th Century, his rise seems unimaginable. Yet despite being a dandy, an author, and not attending the elite schools, he led the Conservative […]
I never knew what a pussy hat was until my wife and I walked in the Women’s March around Washington D.C. on January 21, 2017. It is a pink cap with pussy cat ears mocking our president’s salacious language towards women. The march was not anti-Trump but pro-women to protect their rights and to end […]
During the Vietnam war, I wondered why no one in the military or government understood that America picked the wrong side. Didn’t anybody recognize the many errors our country made leading up to and throughout the Vietnam Conflict? And why did so many pay homage to the moribund “domino theory?” When Daniel Ellsburg released […]
I’ve been asked why did I write about Vietnam. I had suppressed those dark memories and was happy to keep them suppressed. I was against the war but forced to join the military or go to jail. So much for personal freedom in the Land of the Free. When I went on active duty, the […]
Ever wonder why World War I started? 32,000 books have addressed the issue. School books attribute the four year slaughter to an assassination of an Austrian duke when he visited Serbia. I couldn’t believe one killing could cause so much death and ruin. More reasons had to exist. It took me years in pursuit of […]
Is Hell exothermic or endothermic? Hell interpreted from an engineering approach: The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington engineering mid term. The answer was so profound that the Professor shared it with colleagues, which is why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well. Bonus Question: Is […]
