Mado
First it was mau-mauing The Man. Then it was working for Eugene McCarthy to oust LBJ. Then supporting George McGovern to end The War. Now it was 2012 and I was campaigning to get Richard Nixon...
View ArticleAmerican in Europe
"What is wrong with America?" It wasn't the first time I was asked the question, nor the second, nor the third. The question, or at least a form of the question, arose earlier in the week from...
View ArticleAmerican in Europe II
The train rolled on toward Frankfort with my fellow passengers, who I discovered were two Germans and an Australian, wondering if this American was going to continue talking, but I figured that if the...
View ArticleAmerican in Europe III
It was difficult and took much of the rest of the ICE ride to try to explain the completely foreign concept of American Exceptionalism to my new acquaintances. It was foreign to them, and is probably...
View ArticleAmerican in Europe--Prologue
Yeah, I know. The prologue is supposed to be prior to the main. But it could have been worse. I could have started with the epilogue.You notice a difference in the people you have seen today as you...
View ArticleAmerican in Europe--Epilogue
Where are the police? Where are the military personnel?That absence is one difference an American notices while in Europe. Whether it is having a pizza before getting a connecting train at Frankfurt...
View ArticleSequester has a good point
There is no doubt that the sequester will detrimentally affect many people. People who have no where else to go will see their support system crumbling beneath them. Who cares about longer lines at...
View ArticleTo the Lucky Country, again
The 747 rumbled down the DFW runway for an exceedingly long time. Seemed that we soon had to run out of concrete before becoming airborne, but finally it lifted off prior to any disaster occurring....
View ArticleTo the Lucky Country, again II
It was a pleasant late October day when the Pan Am flight finally landed at Kingsford Smith Airport in Sydney. I found my way to a train to Burwood and walked up the hill to Broughton Hostel which...
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