Everyones Got To Fight To Be Free

A History of American Diplomacy by Armin Rappaport copyright 1975 might be useful right now. "...the factors that went into the formulation of policy, such as public attitudes, domestic political considerations, pressures from interest groups, and aims, aspirations, and ambitions of the principal policy makers as well as their characters and personalities."

Check out how much news coverage the Congressional lame duck session is getting or not getting. The little matter of raising the Federal debt limit and passing an omnibus appropriation bill.

William Faulkner is said to have been influenced by James Joyce.

Sports and art are great distractions. The combination could possibly bypass religion as an opiate of the masses.