joneill134's blog

World peace has been the dream of hippies, Nobel Laureates, and beauty pageant contestants pretty much since the first time two tribes of cavemen went at it over the best hunting grounds.  Read More »

In the midst of a presidential election season, it is hard to turn on the news without being shown some sort of poll, who is ahead in the race nationally, state by state, who leads among citizens 65 and older, ect. ect.  Read More »

I'm a huge fan of David McCullough, in fact 1776 is probably one of my favorite books of all time, but I have never had the chance to read John Adams, what many people consider to be his best work. I was able to do the next best thing though: I watched the movie (miniseries actually, last time I checked movies usually don't run 6 disks).  Read More »