Tag Archives: Essays

A couple more Haiti thoughts…

I’m not exactly sure when my fascination with Haiti started. It was back in grade school, and likely before 6th grade. I had to do a report on it and I remember reading that, back in the 1960s, the per capita income was $12 a year. Back then, I think my allowance was $3 a […]

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Jealous much? Not really…

I was over at the Huffington Post reading Jason Linkins’ blog about the new book Game Change. Mr. Linkins pretty much points out that this book, which is sold out in some places, is a salacious collection of gossip which is attributed to anonymous sources. Being trained as a historian, I tend to distrust stuff […]

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Why I can’t read your stories…

One of the cool things about the Internet is that I get to hear from a lot of folks—here in comments, on Facebook, and on Twitter. If you’re on either of those services, feel free to add me as a friend and/or follow me. (On Twitter I tend to post a bunch of links to […]

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