THE US SENATE SYSTEM IS BROKEN
The US Senate system is broken. Roughly half of Americans, some 169 million people, live in the nine most populous states. Together, those states get …
TYRIAN PURPLE
For millennia, Tyrian purple was the most valuable colour, and a prestigious symbol of power and influence, on the planet. Then the recipe for making …
JULIUS CAESAR AND TRUMP
Julius Caesar and Trump. I wrote a blog a couple of weeks ago on the pending civil war in the United States, and Donald Trump’s …
LOST LUGGAGE
After weeks of blogs that have been mainly political, “Lost Luggage” is purely fun – a welcome break you might say. It surprised me …
A DEMOCRATIC STRATEGY
I am offering a Democratic strategy designed to take back the initiative from Trump supporters and the Republican Party. In the Presidential race for 2024, …
NAPOLEON AND NEW ORLEANS
Napoleon and New Orleans. Bonaparte retiring to a house in New Orleans sounds like a skit from Monty Python. It doesn’t appear in textbooks, and …
CIVIL WAR IN THE US
The prospect of civil war in the US just got a little closer this week with Donald Trumps’ rally speech last weekend. My last block …
COMPLACENCY IS THE ROAD TO DICTATORSHIP
Complacency is the road to dictatorship. Dictator-in-Waiting Trump, and his think-tank loyalists, are collecting the ingredients, and refining the recipe, for an authoritarian regime, should …
BISON
Tribes and conservation organizations in the United States have recently started bringing the bison back. And scientists studying the returns are discovering that getting the …
WHAT US SCHOOLS DO WRONG
“What US schools do wrong” is the title of an article I read this week about a simple reality of the teaching environment that could …