Bunker Mulligan "Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." ~Mark Twain

I don’t have the time to devote to reading that I’d like. There is just too much out there in this world that I don’t know, and so I try to follow Kipling’s mandate, “If you can think and not make thoughts your aim.” I’d like to learn it all, but have no reason to. So I limit myself too often to things I need to know.

Now Thomas Sowell comes out with a book list, ostensively for parents to give their children in school as summer reading. I admit I’ve only read a few of them.

He takes offense at some current school text books…

It speaks volumes about our schools and colleges that far-left radical Howard Zinn’s pretentiously titled book, “A People’s History of the United States,” is widely used across the country. It is one indictment, complaint, and distortion after another.

Anyone who relies on this twisted version of American history would have no idea why millions of people from around the world are trying, sometimes desperately, to move to this country. The one virtue of Zinn’s book is that it helps you identify unmistakably which teachers are using their classrooms as propaganda centers.

…and offers some good options for many issues of race, history, culture, and economics.

More for me to choose from.