Steven P Allen

Moreover, it simplifies scheduling conflicts. (See what I did there?)

You know I have to say it: the books are better.

Favorite question fielded when at an ACW reenactment: "Why did so many CW battles take place in national parks?" Yep.

To quote an erstwhile colleague: "After Latin, French is something one learns between armpits in the shower."

My experience with folks of that age is that they don't believe they will get any Social Security retirement, anyway.

One useful definition of a "god" is anything you fear. That is why we are to fear, love, and trust God above all else.

Worry about the mentality of the person wearing it, guilt by association, stopped clock, and all that. Sometimes, argumentum ad hominem is not only justified but correct.

The Australians, New Zealanders, Indians, Burmese played a fairly large role. The British Pacific Fleet *did* play a minor supporting role.

I'm not sure that the guys dressed as wizards carrying the DOGE placards are any less troubling. Big tent, I guess.

Given that power outages tend to occur during really bad weather, solar is unattractive. Relying only on any one power source is a problem.

Stewart, you know the answers to the question. You also know what the US did prior to '541. You're just trying to be provocative--which is becoming SOP.

Not thrilled., but, considering how indifferently Veterans Day is treated in this country, I don't know how much it will matter. The effort may raise awareness and give credit where it is due. When I was working for the college--which, btw, took in millions of VA benefits each year--our Veterans day Holiday was replaced with a floating holiday because vets might use the day to apply or register, and, were we closed, we wouldn't be there to serve them. But the question then arises: when do we honor the other vets? Korea, Vietnam, Gulf, etc? Not to mention the vets who served between wars or during the Cold War?

We're used to power outages hereabouts, some lasting considerably longer than this event. they aren't as widespread, if course, but that fact makes little difference to those in the dark. Lots of good advice here. One not yet noted--probably because of the largely urban character of TN--is the use of propane for heat and cooking. No problem keeping warm for us or preparing food. Were I sufficiently rich, I'd have a propane-fired generator. That's a goal but not near-term, for now.

Revolution. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2070791/

Not at all sure that I agree. I have seen my former employer amass a huge endowment (for a small, private school). They managed to fritter a goodly portion away, but they still built up a great deal of money from donations while financing their operations on Federal Student Loans, to the point of forcing staff to all but require students to take out more and more loans. Efforts to keep the students enrolled were unrelenting and, using the actual term of art, "invasive." Those colleges and universities have been building their intellectual and cultural fiefdoms at public expense, using their students as sacrificial offerings to their God of Power. The education system needs to be completely rebuilt from early childhood to post-doctoral. If it takes wiping out their finances to do it, so be it.