BACK STORY I- George Takei, the legendary actor from the original STAR TREK television series, was recently on THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT. He was peddling his new  children's book, about his experience in an internment camp in Arkansas, with fellow Japanese Americans, during World War II. He railed against the racism of World War II Americans, just attacked by the Imperial Japanese Navy at Pearl Harbor. Takei said he could not understand how America could be so cruel as to intern Japanese Americans as a consequence of that attack. Colbert, in self righteous agreement stayed quiet.  Obviously, Mr. Colbert does not know, or has never talked to a World War II veteran. He just sat quietly, as Takei trashed a generation, engaged in an existential war, not of their choosing. In the old days of television; before television started lecturing versus entertaining or informing,  Colbert would have had a World War II vet on( there are some, a few left), sitting next to Takei...

  On  April 15, in 1912, the unsinkable ship, RMS TITANIC, sank. It went down with 1500 souls. The sinking of the TITANIC was and is one of the spookiest, and eeriest events in human history, which is why it has an ongoing fascination, and a total cult status.  1912 was a very bad year for the British Empire; a year which was a precursor, a presentiment, of all the suffering the British people were doomed to suffer in the 20th Century.  In 1912, Robert Falcon Scott drove his brave men to the South Pole; only to discover the Norwegians had gotten there first. Bravery cannot overcome ineptitude. In 1912, the sea faring genius of the British people went down to the sea, to do business on the great waters; with the finest ship ever built. Only to see  that epitome of British engineering sink on its maiden voyage, by hitting, in a VAST ocean, an iceberg. What are the chances?  Genius does not overcome bad luck, or DIVINE PAYBACK. Lincoln thought America's Civil ...