The conversation is from Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894)
Phil Ebersole's Blog
thoughts about politics and the passing scene
Google Translate
Pages
Meta
Recommended reading
-
Latest posts
- Book note: Muhammad Ali’s own story
- Is peace in Ukraine even possible?
- The case for peace in Ukraine
- Some questions about North American suburbs
- Americans on the move (and not)
- Three stories by Scott Alexander Siskind
- Clark Kent considers a career change
- The so-called “Russian world”: links
- Why is it so hard to pay attention?
- The case against Google Chrome
- How to gird up your loins
- Rich and poor on peace and war
- Top tax rates under different administrations
- College tuition and the anti-radical backlash
- How rich is Jeff Bezos? This rich
Latest comments
Currently most popular
- The geography of American religion
- Book note: Muhammad Ali's own story
- The fat cat in the hat
- Who are willing to fight for their countries?
- Is peace in Ukraine even possible?
- Google and cost obsessions in 50 state capitals
- CONTINUE: a poem
- Bertrand Russell's Ten Commandments
- Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow you die
- Jordan Peterson takes antidepressants
Categories
- Abuse of Power
- Anarchism
- Art
- Bertrand Russell
- Books
- Business
- Campaign Contributions
- Capitalism
- Cartoons
- Civil Liberties
- Civil Rights
- Climate Change
- Coming Bad Years
- Corrections
- Crime and Punishment
- Critical Race Theory
- Deep State
- Deficit
- Economy
- Education
- Energy
- Environment
- Favorite Quotations
- Flying Killer Robots
- Foreign Affairs
- Geography
- Global Warming
- Government
- Green New Deal
- Health Care Reform
- Heroism
- History
- Human Rights
- Hydraulic fracturing
- Immigration
- Inequality
- Inspiration
- International
- International Comparisons
- Jobs
- Journalism
- Labor
- Law and Justice
- Literature
- Medicine and Health
- Minimum Wage
- Movies
- Music
- National Security
- Nature
- Personal
- Philosophy
- Photography
- Poetry
- Politics
- Poverty
- Practical Advice
- Psychology
- Public Policy
- Race and Racism
- Red and Black
- Religion
- Russiagate
- Science
- Science Fiction
- Socialism
- Society
- Stimulus
- Surveillance State
- Taxes
- Technology
- Terrorism
- The 1% and the 99%
- The Lighter Side
- The New Normal
- The Passing Scene
- The Unofficial Rules
- Unemployment
- Unitarian Universalism
- Upstate New York
- War and Peace
- Younger Generation
Archives
- May 2022
- April 2022
- March 2022
- February 2022
- January 2022
- December 2021
- November 2021
- October 2021
- September 2021
- August 2021
- July 2021
- June 2021
- May 2021
- April 2021
- March 2021
- February 2021
- January 2021
- December 2020
- November 2020
- October 2020
- September 2020
- August 2020
- July 2020
- June 2020
- May 2020
- April 2020
- March 2020
- February 2020
- January 2020
- December 2019
- November 2019
- October 2019
- September 2019
- August 2019
- July 2019
- June 2019
- May 2019
- April 2019
- March 2019
- February 2019
- January 2019
- December 2018
- November 2018
- October 2018
- September 2018
- August 2018
- July 2018
- June 2018
- May 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- December 2017
- November 2017
- October 2017
- September 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
Phil Ebersole's Blog 