This NPR story about a Minnesota town council's short-lived support for a U.S. Department of Peace demonstrates the most pitiful thing about small town America. I just want to give it a hug.
Personally, I think having a Secretary of History would be much more valuable.
"Madame Secretary, historically speaking, what happens when you get yourself into a land war in Asia?"
"Well, Mr. President…"
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I spend about ten hours a week correcting student essays. They pay me back by using words like "trendency". I should get them writing sniglets.
An engineer, an experimental physicist, a theoretical physicist, and a philosopher were hiking through the hills of Scotland. Cresting the top of one hill, they see, on top of the next, a black sheep.The engineer says: "What do you know, the sheep in Scotland are black.""Well, some of the sheep in Scotland are black," replies [...]
