To quote myself quoting an unlikable Maugham character last month, “a man who dies for his country dies because he likes it as surely as a man eats pickled cabbage because he likes it.” And while I don’t for a moment believe that anybody wants to die in combat, intuition tells me that many or […]
At about the same time last month that reports began to surface of a killer fungus wiping out tornado victims in Joplin, Missouri, CNN reporter Gary Tuchman was stopped by police on a public road while trying to find the “secret morgue” where it was said these victims’ bodies were being stored. Tuchman and his […]
“It’s enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people’s. Mine occupies me constantly.” – Ebeneezer Scrooge. ” Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that […]
