Past and Present
Gerard DeGrootRiffing on the lessons we might learn from history, but probably won't.
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George and Martha
George and Martha Washington
It's the 4th of July, so here's a little story of revolution. Happy birthday America.
George Washington was as romantic as a honeymoon in Chernobyl. Love and passion were stifled; he was guided not by a restle...
'You Are All that Matters to Me'
I’ve got a little story to tell today. It takes place about a hundred years ago. It might have some relevance to the present.
Claretta Petacci
Claretta Petacci was a young girl when she became dangerously infatuated with Benito Mussolini....
'We're Not Crooks'
Not a day goes by without JD Vance seizing the opportunity to demonstrate what a massive prick he is. On Thursday, while speaking at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in California, the vice president segued from a discussion of his re...
In Search of Cherry Soup
I’m just back from Budapest, where Sharon and I celebrated my 71st birthday. It was insufferably hot, which severely limited the sightseeing we could do, but we still managed to have a memorable long weekend. That’s one of the great advanta...
"The Pinto Gives You That Warm Feeling"
The other day I came across the above photo of Mt St Helens, moments after its explosion on 18 May 1980. It was taken by Dick Lasher, a freelance photographer who came up with the harebrained idea of getting as close as possible to the moun...
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Historian, journalist, and crazy dog lover living in St Andrews, Scotland. Once wrote a lot of books, now a book critic for The Times and others. In my other life I make and fix things. People tell me that I'm a great cook. Friends call me Jerry.
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