Fashion of War, The new normal.

When I was a kid, war wasn’t fashionable. My family didn’t know anybody who was in the military. Gun owners? We thought of them as freaks. They lived on run-down old farms, or were gangsters in the big cities. Cops were sort of jokes, too– the not-very bright sons of working class families who were too good to be in the mob but not good … Continue reading Fashion of War, The new normal.

A damaged civilization.

Long before the current attack on science I was dealing with creationists…. Friends would come up to me with quotes from textbooks, all fired up that their kid kins were being taught “notions” that went against what they’d learned at home or in church. This was a people vs eggheads issue, not one of politics. We’re a nation of shopkeepers and salesmen, craftsmen and farmers; … Continue reading A damaged civilization.