KAMuston's story
Submitted by KAMuston on Wed, 06/18/2008 - 07:31.
I have always admired Alexander Hamilton. How could you not admire a man who could write, “A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous” That kind of self knowledge belies the life of a boy who was abandoned by his father at the age of ten, at twelve watched his mother die in the bed next to him, and was then adopted by a cousin who shortly thereafter committed suicide. Hamilton not only survived but within ten years became one of the most successful and powerful men in America, the man who invented the American economic system. But that childhood also goes a long way to explaining how such a smart man, a happily married man and a devoted father could fall for something as old and obvious as the Badger Game.
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Submitted by KAMuston on Tue, 05/27/2008 - 09:06.
I want to tell the story of the most amazing military campaign in American history, U.S. Grant’s campaign against Vicksburg, Mississippi in the spring of 1863. I will try and tell it in sequence and in real time. And I will begin with the observations of an amateur military genius, Abraham Lincoln, who tried to explain to those who were celebrating the capture of Memphis, Tennessee on June 6, 1862 that such victories were not enough. He lectured his cabinet, “Vicksburg is the key...The war can never be brought to a close until that key is in our pockets….We may take all the northern ports of the Confederacy, and they can still defy us from Vicksburg. It means hog and hominy without limit, fresh troops from all the states of the far South and a cotton country where they can raise the staple without interference.” And I have never found a more cogent or accurate description of the strategic situation in the spring of 1863 than this one.
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Submitted by KAMuston on Sat, 05/03/2008 - 07:10.
Submitted by KAMuston on Thu, 08/30/2007 - 13:31.
I didn’t have to look far for this little story; it was in my hometown paper, the Lafayette Journal and Courier, Lafayette, Indiana. On Saturday night, August 25, 2007, Wendy Barrett in the Saddlebrook subdivision heard a car speeding aroun d the corner near her home. She looked out the window in time to see it slide to a stop onto her property. She rushed outside to see if anyone had been injured. When she opened the car door she found 24 year old Holly Schnobrich slumped in the passenger seat, while behind the wheel was Schnobrich’s 5 year old son, dressed in his pajamas. Barrett asked the barely conscious Schnobrich, “Is this toddler driving your car? Schnobrich responded, “He’s a good driver”. The driver’s 3 year old brother was ridding in the rear seat, next to two unused children’s car seats.
Submitted by KAMuston on Fri, 08/24/2007 - 10:43.
I have always wanted to attend the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, a three week pandemonium of theatre and performance art held each August in the Scottish capital. Its original intent in 1947 was to take advantage of the audiences drawn to the cities’ official arts festivals, but by 1960 it had grown to 2,000 separate shows, ranging from the legendary “Hole in the Meadow”, a literal hole dug in a city park in which a naked man gave a 45 minute performance (each audience limited to one because of the size of the hole) to this year’s ‘The Container” by Clare Bayler, a play about “asylum, racial and religious persecution”, staged in an actual shipping container (audiences limited to 20 per performance).
Submitted by KAMuston on Mon, 08/20/2007 - 06:49.
I would like to offer an alternative to liberals in search of an analogy. The standard two liberal villains are Adolf Hitler and Joe McCarthy. Not only are they over used, but comparing any political opponent to Hitler is absurd. Hitler had no political opponents. He killed them all. On the bright side, he also ended up killing most of his supporters, as well.
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