"Regrets, I've had a few But then again, too few to mention." This is not about Frank Sinatra though I owe the title of the post to "My Way", lyrics by Paul Anka (link). Regrets at missed opportunities in high school and college; fewer regrets in life

I am now reading the later parts of The Proud Tower by Barbara Tuchman, a tour d’force of the history of antebellum, i.e. pre-World War I history in Europe and the U.S. Parts of the book were assigned to me for...

The problem with "other countries decrying the exported terrorism" is that the leadership of totalitarian countries just doesn't care. The criticism of other countries is just not on their radar screen. Think Mengitsu of Ethiopia, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot. Those kind of leaders (and the Revolutionary Guard of Iran falls into that category) are going to do what they're going to do. The great writer Saul Alinsky, in Rules for Radicals, points out that Mahatma Ghandi and Martin Luther King...

Thoughts on the election (responding to):

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There is an expression that he who doesn't know history is doomed to repeat it. Santayana I think. There is no reason not to learn from history. There is also no reason not to preserve the best parts of our past while forging ahead into the future.

No one in his right mind would go back to the typewriter era. No one would go back to the era before limited access roads. I hope no one would want to go back to an era when people's skin color or religion mattered in whether they could...

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