Zone1 I am late

late · 2026-03-18T18:47:43-0500

MarathonMike said:
So why does a 74 year old cancer survivor spend his last years alienating people? Wouldn't it be more interesting to engage?

What an odd thing to say.

EdwinAMartin · 2026-03-18T21:16:23-0500

late said:
There are several ways in which I am late, I don't share them all.

But I am 74, I live just outside Portland, Maine. I am an intellectual, and Progressive.

I used to be a hiker and backpacker, and miss that like crazy.

After the cancer, I wasn't in a good place, so I got an ebike. I had lots of bikes before that, I've ridden my bike across Italy, from the Adriatic to the Med; Italy was great.

I am really into history, and that lead me to people that used economics to understand history better. Starting in the 1970s, stuffy old history came to life when nearly every discipline was brought to bear on history, from accounting to zoology.

I get kicked out of most forums because I do not suffer fools. Don't worry, Mods, I've been kicked out of better, and I don't take it personally.

I will talk about books, a fave is What Hath God Wrought, a pulitzer winning history of the era between the War of 1812 and the Civil War. I had written that era off as uninteresting, man was I ever wrong. It's terrific, and the best writing I have ever seen in a work of history.

I like reading economic history, especially about the early oil industry, and railroads. It helps to understand a lot of later history as well.

EdwinAMartin · 2026-03-18T21:27:02-0500

sealybobo said:
Good to have another progressive on here. Not many of us. We are outnumbered.

BTW, there is no better forum than USMB.

Teddy Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover were Progressives. Maybe you don't really understand the term as well as you think you do. Commies have co-opted it and abuse the term, like when they idolize commies like Harry Hay and his NAMBLA advocacy.