Month: April 2021
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Meeting Pete
When I was in graduate school in Wisconsin, my mother met a man named Pete. My father had died several years earlier, and she was lonesome. She liked to socialize, to dance, to eat and drink with friends. She was a one-man woman, and liked strong men. She didn’t care what they looked like as…
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Hello World
Greg’s Business History I am posting again… For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely,…
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The War of Jenkins’ Ear
This is not a joke. Repeat, this is not a joke. One of Britain’s eighteenth-century wars is called the War of Jenkins’ Ear, 1739-48. Jenkins was a British captain engaged in trading in the Spanish Caribbean. It is unclear what he was trading and with whom; it might have been slaves or it…
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The Necessity of Forgiveness
She said, “Heads up. I’m moving to North Carolina, and you’re not invited.” That was my ex alerting me. I knew things were on the rocks, but it was still sort of a shock. My wife and I started out well, and had some very good years. I can’t quite recall when it started…
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Animals Killing Americans
The United States has some very dangerous animals, although not nearly as many as tropical Africa or Asia. The most dangerous animal may surprise you. Most of the continental US has various kinds of poisonous snakes, including many varieties of rattlesnakes, cottonmouth moccasins, copperheads and coral snakes. Typically these snakes kill about 10 to 15…