Kindly allow me to begin by reprising my Facebook post dated June 3, 2020: “I have a question for Thomas Lane, J.A. Kueng and Tou Thao. You saw your colleague, Derek Chauvin, with his knee on George Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes, 46 seconds on...
Two months ago, I was immersed in a book about the Wright brothers, builders and pilots of the world’s first motor-operated airplane. The author, David McCullough, did a fine job with one exception: He made no reference to Orville or Wilbur’s...
Hardly a day goes by without me opening The Korea Times or one of Seoul’s other newspapers and finding a story or two about this country’s most distressing problem—our low birth rate and its long-term demographic implications. As much as I value...
It seems that I was 40 years too early. Way back in 1980, I was living in Denton, Texas. Sometimes I would visit the county courthouse, paying special attention to the Confederate monument. It featured dear old Johnny Reb holding a rifle and...
The logo of the Coast Guard air station in Salem, Massachusetts features a witch riding a broom. Same for police cars. There is a Witchcraft Heights Elementary School, and the mascot for Salem High School is, naturally, the witch. Salem, known as...
I suspected that at some point in the summer of 2020, I would visit an island off the southwest coast of Korea. While looking at the map on my kitchen wall, I picked Jido along with a nearby town on the mainland called Muan. Neither had...
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