>   I recently slogged my way through A History of the American People, by
> some crackpot I have heard about for some year.  His name escapes me right
> now. He wrote nothing America has done was good, all the bad things we did to
> this or that group of people, sta
>   I could only read a few pages at a time before my head started to
> explode.
>   This nutjob's book is used as a text in many schools.
>   I found it free on the net.  I didn't want him to earn a dime off me.

With the way that publishing works these days, it is a lot easier for
people who are not really knowledgable about a topic to write a paperback
and get it published.  When you order a copy, they print it off and send it
to you.

>   When Billy Mitchell demonstrated in the early '20s a plane could sink a
> battleship the American Navy scoffed and said no way.  A group of Japanese
> military (our ally in The Great War) were busy taking notes.

Later, when our manufacturers were ignoring Deming, the Japanese paid
attention again.  :)

Mike


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