My annual reading list, plus some other lists I made this year. Here is last year's list and you can follow that back through previous years. First, the historical and professional work. Let me use the same language I use ever year, since it’s a...
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This is the grave of Sumner Redstone. Born in Boston in 1923, Redstone grew up in a Jewish family in that city. His actual name was Sumner Rothstein. He would.
I enjoyed Maurer and Maurer's discussion of the Washington Naval Treaty, which concludes that unfortunately the conditions that enabled the success of arms control in the 1920s don't hold today..
The future of the United Auto Workers fundamentally rests on organizing the massive parts of the unorganized American auto industry. The big contract victories (which were approved by members by surprisingly small margins; there was plenty of appetite left to continue the strike and get...
Gee, I wonder why all these Nissan workers in the United States are getting huge wage gains? The agreement reached between the United Automobile Workers (UAW) and the Big Three.
This is the grave of Mickey Rooney. Born in 1920 in New York, Joseph Yule grew up in a vaudeville household. Given Rooney would basically be a vaudeville-type guy his.
This is the grave of Brock Adams. Born Brockman Adams in Atlanta, Georgia in 1927, Adams grew up in the Northwest, where his parents moved shortly after his birth. Sensibly, he used Brock instead of Brockman. He first lived in Portland and then Seattle. He...
The co-star of one of my favorite movies ever -- The Hustler -- and many other fine films has died: Piper Laurie, a three-time Oscar nominee who excelled in roles.
This is the grave of George and Barbara Bush. Well, this is an interesting dilemma. This is the first time I've done a grave post on someone I have written.
Our first meeting Thursday morning was with Mamuka Mamulashvili, leader of the Georgian Legion. We met at the Legion’s base, a set of old buildings (near a school, where we could hear the children at recess), not far by car from downtown. The Georgian Legion is...
Still way behind on music notes and music experiences, but let's try to catch up a bit. One show I saw recently that I thought was really great was Julia.
Oppenheimer and other scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project recognized that atomic bombs would change warfighting. Many of them worked toward world government in response. Lewis Strauss and Edward.