Month: April 2015

When my wife and I first arrived in Britain in 1964, we were constantly harangued by Brits because of the war in Vietnam. These early days abroad during the Vietnam War constitute one of the first periods in my life to that point in which I was ashamed to say I was an American.  The next time… Continue reading The Day John McEnroe Saved My Ass

I know this is boring, but I did promise a great cartoon about why Archimedes leaped out of his bath and shouted Eureka . . . http://archimedespalimpsest.org/images/kaltoon/ the drawings are by Kevin Kallaugher of The Economist.