Commentary on the Facets of Life, Usually Based on Personal Experience, Data, and Logic.
Posted in Culture and Diversity, National Defense, and Travel
A news item about Switzerland denying citizenship to two Muslim girls who refused to take school-required swimming lessons because there would be boys in the…
Posted in Books, Climate, Government, and Poverty
When I started reading The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan, I did a quick search on “Dust Bowl” for a little background information on the subject…
Once we get past the major peripheral presidential campaign issues currently dominating social and left and right wing media, there are three subjects that deserve…
My memory is not what it used to be and never was that good, so, when a FB friend asked if I have read Babbitt…
If you trace your ancestry to Ireland, Scotland, England, or France or if you came from the Vikings or if you are Catholic or Episcopalian…
“The attractive nuisance doctrine applies to the law of torts in the United States. It states that a landowner may be held liable for injuries to…
Posted in Equality and Inequality
I have clear memories of economics lectures from my paternal grandfather in the 1950’s and 1960’s about what would be the result of what he…
In my early days at Eastman Chemical, in the late 1960’s, I learned a lot of practical stuff about chemical plant construction, and a little…
Posted in Church and State, Culture and Diversity, History, and Travel
Originally posted 3/28/2012. Updated 7/28/2018 to include comments by the Montserrat Guide which were previously in a separate post. We just got back from a…
Posted in Culture and Diversity, Economics, History, and Politics
I was a senior at Vanderbilt on November 22, 1963, the day of President Kennedy’s assassination. JFK had visited Nashville and spoken at Vanderbilt’s Dudley…