Here we are. The end of Secret Historian. Our initial book club was a big flop. Except for a hardy few, people were silent as church mice (much thanks to those who consistently tried to get(...)

Wednesday evening. You know what that means. Chapters 16, 17 and 18 of Secret Historian. Get at it!

It’s Wednesay. Time for another epsiode of the 365 book club. Today we focus on chapters 13, 14, and 15 of Secret Historian.

Thanks to Urban and Bobby for carrying the conversation of Secret Historian. Today it’s all about chapters 10, 11 and 12. Come on peoples. Give Bobby and Urban some help this week.

Losing Howard Zinn is painful for the entire country. But his type of history telling was particularly instructive to disenfranchised groups. He wrote the people’s history, literally in his(...)

The new year has barely started and I’m about to break a resolution, wasting brain space on the loony man Glenn Beck. First he starts an interview with Sarah Palin by reading his “journal(...)

Writer Peggy Noonan  has more original thoughts in a minute than I can conjure up in a year.  I appreciate her talent, but her op-ed today has forced me to resign as VP of  her fan club.

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If I were to have a child I would name her Megan. That’s not really true. Any future girl child will be saddled with Billie and a boy Ulysses; however, today I’m all about Megan. Specifically(...)

Frederick Douglass had no use for Abraham Lincoln. The American abolitionist thought the country’s first Republican president was cool at best on the slavery question and timid when it came to(...)