Random Thoughts by Mark Milliorn

It has been too many years, so I no longer remember why my brother and I were driving through San Antonio’s Brackenridge Park that night.  S...

One of the great insights I gleaned from studying history was the realization that everyone throughout history, no matter when or where they...

A few weeks ago, I told half of the story about the loss of the Spanish ship San Telmo .  Now, I want to recount the other half of the story...

Quick, what role did Pauline Wayne play in the Taft Administration?  And what did President Theodore Roosevelt think of Emily Spinach?  And ...

The Consul of Rome was worried.  The recent attempted coup by Cataline had been suppressed by the Roman Army, but had exposed that in the co...

Sixty-six years ago, an economist named Lawrence Read published a tidy little essay about all of the different companies from around the wor...

Quick quiz:  Are we currently on Standard Time or DST (Dumb as Shit Time)?  Now ask the same question of a couple of friends.  When I tried ...

If you go to the Louvre (which is the most famous art museum in the world), the most crowded room is always Room 38, the Salle des États.  T...

Being a graduate student at Enema U mostly means languishing in the library for long hours, reading long articles.  While these can be inter...

W ithout a doubt, my favorite movie is Secondhand Lions , a movie that could have only been made in Texas.  I like this movie so much that I...