Random Thoughts by Mark Milliorn

After a career of teaching history, it is so much fun to write about nonsense.

Saturday, December 25, 2021

Public Domain Day is Coming!

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Next week is one of the best days of the year, “Public Domain Day”!  (Or, occasionally known as “New Year’s Day”.) Every year on January 1, ...
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Saturday, December 18, 2021

Rock Paper…What?

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In recent weeks, having solved such weighty problems as Covid, politics, and the appropriate boarding weapon for pirates, it is time to disc...
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Saturday, December 11, 2021

Boarding Weapons

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There is a long list of book subjects that I am hopelessly addicted to: Twain, post WW2 science fiction, late 19th century mysteries, and an...
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Saturday, December 4, 2021

Whose Turn Is It to Lead?

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There is that great line about while Fred Astaire was a fantastic dancer, we should all remember that Ginger Rogers did everything he did, b...
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Saturday, November 27, 2021

Masks and Minecraft

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Is anyone else tired of wearing a mask?     I’m certainly not an expert on the subject, but those who are—including The Doc—assure me that m...
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Saturday, November 20, 2021

This is What Committees Do

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Periodically, and for no apparent logical reason, the head squirrels at Enema U required every academic department to rewrite their mission ...
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Saturday, November 13, 2021

The Supply Chain is Made of Weak Links

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This week, the President of the United States correctly said that Americans do not understand the supply chain.  Everyone in the country see...
Saturday, November 6, 2021

Who said That?

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Years ago, exasperated by Facebook click bait masquerading as history quizzes that were so ridiculously easy that even Congressmen could pas...
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Mark Milliorn
I retired, became a student again, and now I'm teaching again. I still haven't decided what to do when I grow up. When I'm not reading, I make terrible watercolor paintings that I burn so they can't be used as evidence at my commitment hearing.
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