What Do I Know?

Intro:  Civil Service and Merit System are terms most Americans have heard, but I'd guess that few could tell you, very accurately, wh...

I found the following passage intriguing.  And since it is bad form to copy whole passages of other books without adding value or a new cont...

That's the question raised in a book I picked up at the Elliott Bay Bookstore in Seattle during Thanksgiving. I've just started read...

Since President Elect Trump tells more lies than truths, it seems appropriate for him to have fictional cabinet members to match the fiction...

From the August 31, 2024 LA Times:  [Note the digital and facsimile editions have different titles.]   As someone who taught public administ...

A link to Capacious led me into a rabbit hole that didn't let go for several hours.  As an academic, I found the first story too real a...

This is an important interview by Brian Taylor Cohen, one of the brightest and most articulate commentators (I want to say on the air, and h...

"79 is a  prime number ...  79 has 2 factors, 1 and 79. It's the 22nd prime number . . ." from  Prime Number fandom ELIE WIESE...

I started this post a week or so ago.  And I previously posted about David Scheel's book, Many Things Under a Rock .   But our book clu...

 The moose are out this week.  Tuesday, walking toward Goose Lake we ran into a cow and calf.  Two bikers and a runner had already alerted u...

I've got a bunch of started posts, but finishing them gets hard.  Don't want to just be another opinion without strong evidence.  Do...

 My bookclub is reading The Street  by Ann Petry this month.   It was first published in 1946.  Remember that date.  It says on the cover of...