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Howard Zinn,   The 5 Immortals , & the   6th   Player , Offer Insight into Our Ideals. Photo by   Matthias Cooper   on   Unsplash . Essay Originally Published on Medium . I have been looking into the background of historian and political scientist,   Howard Zinn , learning that many say he was not always historically   honest , or thorough in his citations and sources. That his interpretations were   slanted towards socialism , and consistently shaming the United States for its faults and failures. In one instance he supposedly explains how   during WWII many Black Americans were against going to war , using only a few secondary sources like personal letters, and such, as evidence. From my non-exhaustive Google searches, I can find no references to that claim of an anti-war sentiment by a large portion of Black Americans. However, at the same time there is a historical tangent in a   somewhat   similar direction, about our ...

Photo by   Claire Anderson   on   Unsplash . First published on Medium .   . The world must bow to my desires… Sure. But first curtsey this. Asshole! . The humor is getting harsher and harsher everyday… Possibly, it is because you deserve it. Asshole! . It is like no matter what you say nowadays gets you a backhand… Takes you a while to get the message, doesn’t it? Asshole! . There is nothing you can say to me that will make me change my mind. Actually I am done talking. So I brought my lobotomy tools. 'You'll be praised': Audio of Trump call with Georgia elections investigator offers new details = likely Trump has a lobotomy. President Donald Trump urged Georgia's chief elections investigator to find "dishonesty" that could help overturn the… www.nbcnews.com . Wasn't lobotomy humor outlawed decades ago? Not if it is funny. Asshole! . Haven’t asshole joke comebacks also outlived their usefulness? No. Yet you have obviously outlived your youthfulness. Saggi...

Photo by   AJ Garcia   on  Unsplash First published on Medium . . I have read a number of books on   quantum physics . Nothing terribly, mathematical-equation heavy so I can only give you a rough outline of the physics. However, the history of how the scientists got to the next stage of advances in the quantum realm is enlightening all on its own. . Breakthroughs were often rejected by the dinosaurs. At other times the   ah-ha moments   never came, it was a research paper a researcher found that was written by someone else, years before. Not many people had heard about it, let alone read, and promoted it, so the idea languished, as the paper collected dust, until it was rediscovered. In politics it is a lot easier to come up with at least   plausible   ideas, but tougher to get through all the rumbling and wrestling. Workable ideas may become obsolete before anyone notices them. . The process that matured over a number of years into my comprehensi...