Please click “About” for an explanation of this website and the “V” reference. Its primary purpose is to explore issues that impact our lives today and tomorrow. However, it will not ignore the past because, whether we like it or not, the past is a template for the future. Another focus is to refute extremist, simplistic answers to modern life. Show me someone with all the answers, and I will show you someone who does not think. As Socrates said, “Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.”
Latest Posts
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What are Walloons?
In January 1624, two teenagers married just days earlier boarded a small Dutch ship and sailed into a winter gale across the North Atlantic. They had almost nothing but each other — and they were about to help build one of the greatest cities on Earth. Joris Jansen Rapalje and Catalina Trico were French-speaking Walloon…
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Do you remember?
For some of us who have witnessed the blatant [hypocrisy…duplicity…perfidy…betrayal…fraud] over the last 45 years, it is hard to believe that some people still cling to the illusion that the GOP is the moral party. Immorality and stupidity happen to every political party and every person. No one is perfect. The real issue is what…
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The Rebel Who Gave George Washington a Profession
This is a video about the Rebel Who Measured America: George Hume, the Jacobite Exile Who Taught George Washington to Survey. In 1716, a 17-year-old Scottish aristocrat sat in a London prison, sentenced to die for treason. Instead, Britain shipped him to Virginia as convict labor — and accidentally exported a founder. This is the…
Do you care about the future?
If you care, let’s agree on where we are, consider how we got there, and plan for a better future. If you are too lazy to think about the future or believe that a magic fairy, luck, or a strongman will lead you to the promised land, then you should immediately leave this website.
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