You know how some college students build up displays of empty alcohol bottles as some sort of bizarre trophy set that gives mute testimony to the regularity of bacchanals in their lives ( Read more... )

A thought I had either Wednesday or Tuesday afternoon (don't ask, I don't remember which):Granted: the puritan settlers who colonized Massachusetts ("The Pilgrims") were not the first, or the only, Europeans in America, and that our modern nation, while derived from their existence, is not necessarily historically dependent upon their survival. ( Read more... )