For the past few years, as readership of these posts has slowly grown, I have been getting proposals from people and companies wanting to run advertising here. I’ve turned them...
A lot of Americans—my wife is one of them—are reluctant to travel abroad on the grounds that there are whole sections of this country that they have never seen. I...
I once suggested to Hawaii’s revered U.S. Senator Dan Inouye that every newly-elected member of Congress should be required to take a cross country train en route to first assuming...