Pal and Blogsteress Robin Coyle makes some optimistic predictions about how the current Corona Virus lock-down may change us for the better. I’m an old grump and a little more cynical than Mrs. Coyle, but I think she is right about some things and I hope she is about others. Read More HERE.
The story of Robert Paxton McCulloch, who bought an historic stone bridge in London, put in on ships in pieces, sent the pieces to the Port of Long Beach and reassembled the bridge in Lake Havasu, Arizona. Fascinating tale of entrepreneurship, vision, and free enterprise. Read More HERE.
Isaiah Berlin came up with the concept of The Hedgehog and the Fox, but the book by the same name is mostly about War and Peace author Lev Tolstoy. If you’re a fan of Berlin or have an interest in Russian literature you may like it. Read More HERE
2020 VISION is a book of 12-poems – one for each month of the year – by George Lee Cunningham. The poems are about the joy of life, the state of the world, getting older, and coming to terms with your own humanity. You can get a PDF copy of the poems by clicking HERE.
Wernher von Braun and his Nazi pals may have pioneered space travel with their infamous V-2 rocket attacks on Britain, but they also unleashed another side-product that is changing our lives, tracking our movements, and infringing on our privacy – closed-circuit TV. Read More HERE.
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Skeptic magazine publisher Michael Shermer on why trying to achieve Utopia always ends in murders, pogroms, genocides, ethnic cleansings, revolutions, civil wars and state-sponsored conflicts. A better idea – Protopia – incremental progress in steps toward improvement, not perfection. Read More HERE.
