Indigenous People
There is something in man’s DNA that encourages him to conquer and subjugate those he considers inferior. And anyone who doesn’t look like him, [&h...
Author: Carole Eglash-Kosoff
The Second Amendment
In a time, long gone, when we were British colonists, promising fealty to the English king, their soldiers could enter our homes and confiscate...
Racism
A Decade of Summer / A Century of Winter What I have trouble understanding is how we got from muskets to AR-15 assault weapons...
The Double V
A Simple Letter Early on a quiet Sunday morning an armada of Japanese ships and airplanes attacked American military bases at Pearl Harbor on...
College Debt
My purpose in writing Snippets is to provide context for current issues…how did we get here. This particular Snippet will be different since there [...
Ethanol
It seemed like a really good idea at the time. It was way back in 1978, and the Arab oil embargo had us lining...
Water
Until the past two decades we gave little consideration to water. We turned on the tap and there it was, gurgling, clear and inviting...
The Spanish Flu
Here we go again! Another strain! More mandates! As we face the emergence of another Covid variant, we should be glad this isn’t 1918 [...
The Atomic Age
The film, Oppenheimer, chronicles the development of the A-bomb during WWII. I’m hoping this Snippet will provide additional context. As early as 1933 Hungarian [...
Title IX
It’s easy to forget the storm surrounding the implementation of Title IX, but to colleges and universities…and to generations of women, its effect has [&h...