Can I Say That I Think It

Back In The '70s When My Friends In California Were At Berkeley, In-state Tuition Was Around $700 A Year.

Any Time You Write History, You Insert Your Opinion. You Pick And Choose What You Are Going To Write About. I Feel Really Happy Not Inserting Myself. I Spend Too Much Of My Life Inserting Myself. It's Just Great To Let Other People Carry The Narrative.

I Used To Like John Mccain, Too, But I Must Admit That Was Because He Was Bucking His Party To Do Things I Agreed With. I Would Not Have Had That Reaction If, Say, Bernie Sanders Decided To Rebel Out Of Principle And Support Privatizing Social Security.

Texas Has No Income Tax, Which Is A Big Draw For Corporate Executives Who Do Business There. But It's Hardly Tax-free. The Property Taxes Are High For A Southern State. The Sales Taxes Are High. One Study Found That The Bottom 20 Percent Of The Texas Population Pays 12 Percent Of Its Income In State And Local Taxes.

I Did Some Research Once On The Way People In The Past Imagined The Year 2000. They Tended To Picture The Things They Already Had Getting More Sophisticated - Flying Cars, Self-cleaning Windows. And The Folks In The Early 1900s Had A Wildly Optimistic Estimate Of The Future Of Pneumatic Tubes.