History may not repeat itself, but it rhymes
For skeptics trying hard not to turn cynical about current events, money, military, politics, arts, healthcare, relationships and random hypocrisies.
Gov. DeSantis warns bad changes are coming Gov. Ron DeSantis warns we’re at risk of tugging the nation into a “hell” of “Woke Marxism.” It raised the prospect of a dystopian future that had escaped me until now. Marx himself … Read More
I’ve got a couple of author readings coming up. I’ll be reading from my book, Something Like Treason, at the Windsor Gardens Book Club in Aurora, Colorado on April 7 and (being something of a one-trick pony) doing a lecture … Read More
And tearing the corner off integration Despite the hoarding habits of certain federal officials, The National Archives still has a big inventory. Military history stuff. And baseball stuff. It marked the start of spring training, for example, by publishing Babe … Read More
Our mentally disturbed candidates Governor Ron DeSantis texted me the other day. He was “stunned.” Not just disturbed or worried. STUNNED. Democrats had recklessly committed millions to defeat the Republican Senate candidate in Nevada. Can he really be as disturbed … Read More
We not only repeat history, we copy it I’m told that studying history is a good way to avoid repeating it. But, as a whole, it’s not working out that way. Studying history has done little to prevent us from repeating … Read More
Some things in history do repeat themselves History doesn’t repeat itself, it rhymes. Mark Twain originally wrote that. Or not. This being the post-truth age, his authorship, too, has been questioned. But some things in history do repeat themselves. The … Read More
Like, 425,000 of Them I’ve been talking to book clubs and groups about “Something Like Treason,” which, of course, is about some pro-German U.S. soldiers during World War II. Until climate change became evident to enough people, World War II … Read More
Big lies, of course, reliably spring from money, power, and/or sex. The more outrageous they are, however, the more passionately we come to believe them. Count me among the befuddled. Why we believe these things, fall for the same … Read More
One Man’s War is another Man’s Movie I do love World War II. No, not the meat-grinding blood, torture, cruelty, death, and heartache that it was. But let some character seem to die or spy in a war book, movie, … Read More
I thought I had settled on a good book title. Among other things, however, it also seemed to produce an apparently irresistible urge for people to ask, “why was it only something like treason.” World War II was well before … Read More
When I was researching the book, I ran across a really interesting military historian named Fred Borch. I cited some of his work in “Something Like Treason.” Now I’m ready to do something modest like worship at his feet because … Read More
Waiting for Something Like Treason: Disloyal American Soldiers and the Plot to be World War II Home is something like waiting for any climax. Some nail-biting, some managing of expectations, some resolve to just be cool, then repeat. My publisher, … Read More
90 years on, evergreen objections & evergreen coup talk: People who are against social programs have grandchildren who are against social programs. Today’s arguments against big spending on infrastructure and social needs are the very same as the objections … Read More
Should you want to install a microchip in your Pfizer (shaken, not stirred) and become a puppet of the Illuminati for the rest of your life, don’t use the needle healthcare professionals are using to administer the vaccine. It’s the … Read More
A Sticky Trump Addiction. Won’t You Please Help? I’m as politically gullible as the next guy. But I’m also part of a medically underserved population struggling to cure itself of a Trump addiction. It takes over our lives and … Read More
Does anyone remember what they are? America is taking another stab at returning to whatever political normalcy is and making us one nation indivisible again. But after overwhelming tragedy, and four years of making America great and domestic terrorism, … Read More
A Short Complaint About Normalcy “Normalcy” has become an accepted word again. I used to do spit takes whenever I heard it, which did no good and led to serious dehydration issues. Everybody uses it anyway and seems to have … Read More
And a new generation of literally cold warriors It’s less bizarre this time, but the Army is buying “skis, snowshoes, large tents and other equipment to train troops on cold-weather survival” again. This time it doesn’t have to share a … Read More
The Army Times called it “in a perfect encapsulation of 21st century life on Kuwait’s Camp Buehring, a Pennsylvania Army National Guard chaplain was handcuffed and hauled off by military police.”