Random Thoughts by Mark Milliorn

Back in the early seventies, while I was a student at the University of Houston, the local newspaper ran a joke front page on April Fools ’ ...

If you walk even five feet into my house, it is rather obvious that my wife and I like books.   There are bookcases and ...

Gunpowder weapons have been used in wars for hundreds of years, but for most of that time, they were highly inaccurate and were fired in the...

Any American who has traveled in Europe or Asia is in awe of the train service there.   Train service is cheap, clean, and...

Certain words are so overused that they lose all meaning.    No matter what I write about, somebody, somewhere writes to call me a socialist...

Late nineteenth century London was a mixture of old and new:   there were horse-drawn carriages, but also, many of the wonders of the indust...