Most students of the Vietnam War agree that one major reason for America’s poor showing and seeming ineptness at times was the way President Lyndon Johnson micromanaged the war from Washington. Papers, archives, and diaries are replete with request for air strikes being countermanded from the White House even as platoons of men were under [...]
Entries from August 2009
August 19, 2009
She Works Hard for the Money!
I just got off the phone with Mike and Joy. They are two of my former and most favorite students from my days of teaching high school English. I had them for all of their four years, I was directly responsible for them starting to date, AND, as an ordained minister, I performed their wedding [...]
August 13, 2009
Why Wikipedia Kicks Other Sources’ Butts
Wikipedia is the bane of the existence of many a stalwart librarian and many and more a stalwart educator. It is maligned and banned and blocked and forbidden in as many ways as possible.
Unfortunately, this whole mindset against the might of Wikipedia is utterly and completely doomed to failure and all you out there in [...]
