Current events is surprise and mistakes in real time, History is surprise
and mistakes in past tense, with an ex post facto narrative stapled over
top of it.
> Thanks for the clarification, the problem with trying to
> understand HISTORY, is that we sometimes get caught by surprise with
> "current" events! 8-)
>
> --
> "Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay
> for
> it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their
> kids pay for it."
>
and mistakes in past tense, with an ex post facto narrative stapled over
top of it.
> Thanks for the clarification, the problem with trying to
> understand HISTORY, is that we sometimes get caught by surprise with
> "current" events! 8-)
>
> --
> "Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay
> for
> it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their
> kids pay for it."
>