So much of life is not about whether you're good or bad, or right or wrong, or can afford or not afford - it's just about timing.
The Creation Museum isn't really a museum at all. It's an argument. It's not even an argument. It's the ammunition for an argument. It is the Word made into bullets. An armory of righteous revisionism.
Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.
Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering.
So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.
Let us not forget: The Palestinians in Gaza are our permanent neighbors, and we are theirs.