Mao, the People's Emperor by Dick Wilson My rating: 2 of 5 stars This is a hard book to rate. On one hand, it provides a lot of information and is somewhat detailed. On the other, it leaves out huge chunks of information which is simply unforgivable. I wanted to read about Mao to learn …
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Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks My rating: 4 of 5 stars Gosh, there's so much to say about this book, I hardly know where to begin! I turned over so many pages to go back and see citations or quotes that I can't possibly list a fourth of them …
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Hi. It's been awhile since I've posted a non-book review here, so I thought I'd write down a few thoughts. My father has been dead three months now. That's still very hard to believe. His gravestone was just put in, so Gretchen and I will be going to Knoxville to view it soon. Last weekend, …
After the Toomey-Manchin amendment was voted down by our elected government officials even though polls showed that it had the support of over 90% of the US population, I emailed Tennessee's US senators, Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker (both Republicans), to express my disdain for their vote. I tried to send messages shaming them into …
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Austerity Kills: Crippling Economic Policies Causing Global Health Crisis | Alternet. The Republicans are wrong. Austerity is NOT the answer!
