No Plato Please, We Is Aggies

Y’all may have heard of the great rivalry between The University and A&M. No? Where you been? Somewhere with Yankee values? Where they believe in civil rights, gun control, and other noxious forms of socialism? Figures. We got to get yore mind right, as the man famously said in Cool Hand Luke. Cause some men–andContinue reading “No Plato Please, We Is Aggies”

So Far, So Bad

This is really not so much of a blog post as the start of trying to work out why Mexican independence got off to such a shaky start in the 1820s and 1830s, although, really, it is mostly confined to thinking about what went on there in the mid-1820s. And, to be even more specific,Continue reading “So Far, So Bad”