Sarah Palin has claimed that studies showing polar bears are threatened by global warming are “snake oil science.” Speaking in Redding, CA, at the Sierra-Cascade Logging Conference, Palin argued that the science of climate change is really just a plot to hurt oil companies. “Those promoting polar bear listing really want to shut down oil and gas leasing in Arctic coastal waters off Alaska.” Read More»
“[I]t is not simply that there is a different story as to what happened; it is that no attack happened that night. [...] In truth, Hanoi’s navy was engaged in nothing that night but the salvage of two of the boats damaged on August 2.
–National Security Agency Historical Study: “Gulf of Tonkin Incident” [Declassified]
Just tell a little lie, Mr. McNamara, Mr. Johnson, and two years later, my dad is in Vietnam to defend your Domino Theories.
I’m preparing for an August 2010 Ph.D. Comp Exam on the Vietnam War. I’m developing a new course, Poetry in History: from Vietnam to 911, and I’m using this forced exam prep as a preparation. This URL explains it further.
“A writer’s notebook is not a diary. Writers react. Writers need a place to record these reactions. That’s what a writer’s notebook is for. It gives you a place to write down what makes you angry or sad or amazed, to write down what you noticed and don’t want to forget. A writer’s notebook gives you a place to live like a writer.”
-- Ralph Fletcher, A Writer’s Notebook: Unlocking the Writer Within You
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