I just scored a first. Nothing I submitted to any publication on Medium had ever been turned down.

I know why. I didn’t just break the Fourth Wall, I smashed it to powder and danced on it. And I asked people directly to do civil disobedience. So I — who at one time was a leading writer in History — was turned down by Lessons From History.

I would not have done this before my health began to crash. But it’s a clue that it’s about time for me to hang it up while I still have some reputation left.