A hundred years ago today the world burned. On 8 August the Entente Powers of France and its colonies, the United Kingdom and its colonies, Continue Reading
Politics
Obama’s Speech
You may have seen former President Barack Obama giving a speech at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign about current President Donald Trump. Gist of the Continue Reading
A Strange Kind of Freedom
President Trump commuted the sentence of Alice Johnson, a 63-year-old African American grandmother, for her involvement in a drug smuggling ring. Johnson had been sentenced Continue Reading
Personal Rule
Between 1629 and 1640 King Charles I Stuart of England, Scotland & Ireland ruled England through Personal Rule. He prorogued Parliament the year before and Continue Reading
Fire & Fury Review
On 1 May I picked up a copy of Fire And Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff around noon and was finished Continue Reading
The Clean War
In the next major update to Heart of Iron IV by Paradox Studios there will be major changes the focus tree for Germany. This is Continue Reading
Polemic
This started out as just another essay but evolved into an exercise of a polemic. I did not have any training in rhetoric or debate Continue Reading
A Sunny Day in September
I turned eleven years old on April 4, 2001. That fall I entered sixth grade my teacher was Mr. Duskin; he was a popular teacher, Continue Reading