General Jim "Mad Dog" Mattis Describes Trump As A Functionally-Illiterate Fool Who "Will Fill Body Bags With His Troops"
Read about the astonishingly wide circulation of Thomas Paine's book-pamphlet, "Common Sense":
We seldom talk about the fact -- plain as potatoes -- that if everyone read broadly and passionately, the world would not be a perpetual mess.
It would be a very lovely place. (Check out your local library to glimpse the loveliness of people who read a lot. Here are the research findings: https://share.google/aimode/p589BaHGBNP20j1nI)
Reading and writing are the foundation of Civilization.
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Thanks to my good friend Nancy for sending me this New York Times link.
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