It’s late on the last night of the month with less than an hour to go until May, and I’m feeling particularly pissy. In light of France having spied for Baghdad by supplying Saddam’s regime with confidential UN and US transcripts and documents over the past several years, and France just being a pain in [...]
Two hundred years ago today, France continued its centuries-old tradition of running away with its tail between its legs rather than put up an honest and forthright fight.
Two hundred years ago today, the young United States broke its own constitutional laws in ratifying a treaty with France.
Things haven’t changed much, have they?
Napoleon’s colony at Santa [...]
When I was an elementary and high school student, I hated history. I couldn’t imagine how anything that occured before I was born had any relevance in my life. The American Civil War bored me. The lives of Marie Antoinette, Benjamin Franklin, and Abraham Lincoln interested me even less. Despite their concerted efforts, nothing any [...]
Since today is Tax Day in the United States, with far too many people having procrastinated until the last possible minutes to file (Me? I’ve already gotten my huge refund!), I know that a large percentage of those still file manually — pencil, paper, and calculator in hand.
So I thought a few math and accountant [...]
I think the migration to version 2.63 of my Movable Type weblog management system from version 2.21 is now complete (for richard’s ramblings, at least). Whew! Several upgrade steps were skipped and I went directly from the old version to the new one, skipping versions 2.5, 2.51, 2.6, 2.61, and 2.62.
I’m glad I made the [...]
Two weekends ago, I decided that our family was going to have a monthly mandatory “field trip”, an educational outing that combines a bit of local history with a sprinkle of fun. Our inaugural excursion was to Lou’s Living Donut Museum near downtown San Jose, California.
The original Lou was one Lucius Ades, a decorated World [...]
On Tuesday, coalition forces entered the center of Baghdad to find a jubilant crowd of Iraqi citizens trying in vain to pull down a metal statue of Saddam that had been commissioned to commemorate his 65th birthday. Unveiled less than a year ago, the statue was eventually pulled down with the help of a US [...]
A recent visitor from the UK cited a BBC study that showed that the four main networks in the United States (ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox) covered only two or three non-American news stories each month. Even those had an American interest. The reader then posed the question as whether the study seemed correct. While [...]
