Quotes
Check out our 75 best bad attitude quotes, and the following… The Judgment of History “…those who rather pursue posthumous fame do not consider that the men of after-time will be exactly such as those whom they cannot bear now.” …
Big Government Handouts
Recently, Elon Musk beat out Jeff Bezos for a 2.9 billion contract from NASA to fly one of his magnificent exploding rocket ships to the moon. In true American fashion, Bezos whined and cried that this wasn’t fair. So, now, …
Why We Will Never Learn
Thomas Polgar, the last CIA station chief in Vietnam, died in March at the age of 92. His obit is in today’s New York Times. And here’s Polgar himself, remembering the fall of Saigon. As well as, in this brief aside, the war criminal Henry …
Writing Wrongs
1. IF YOU WOULDN’T SAY IT, DON’T WRITE IT. Here’s a sentence picked at random (really) from a paper written by an A student: “The effectiveness of the antipsychotic drug Thorazine made it possible for many schizophrenics and other patients …
Germans Going Native
About an hour from me is a park on a man-made lake they call Bostalsee, and most weekends this summer it was home to some sort of spectacle. One Friday in early July I went to an event billed as …
K.C Constantine Interview
Amazon Interview Mr. Constantine wrote this self-interview for Amazon.com, where his recent novels can be found: Yo, K.C., why the pseudonym? It’s not false. Constantine’s my middle name, K is the initial of my last name, and …
Playing The Presidential Organ
The Member from Johnson City In his recent biography of Lyndon Johnson, Flawed Giant, Robert Dallek writes, “During a private conversation with some reporters who pressed him to explain why we were in Vietnam, Johnson lost his patience. According to Arthur Goldberg, …