Diversity on Stage-Why Minding Your Own Business Might Be Just the Ticket
If it's June there must be a new arbitrary group to rejoice in or promote or mythologize or all the above. A minority group that...
Life in the Oligarchy
I'm scheduled for cataract surgery soon, and that now requires what once would have been pages and pages of forms. Today, of course, providing all...
Is Income and Wealth Disparity Really the Next Great Calamity?
Who gets through a Facebook perusal without graphs and charts, lamentations and prophecies about the dire calamity of income or wealth disparity? It's got to...
Is It Democracy or Is It Oligarchy?
The word 'oligarch' is everywhere, with the title being maliciously applied to many or most of the very wealthy entrepreneurs who have fostered a new...
Brooklyn Subway Attack Not A False Flag Operation
An oligarchy is not defined as a government of rich money launderers. It's simply a government of a few, whether it's the clergy, the Generals,...
A Deterioration of Language—Madness Is On the Rise
I've been part of various online groups over the years because of my interest in language. For many years I've been rebuffed, insulted, and verbally...
Here Comes Santa Claus
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday are my Gym days. I usually go at around noon since it’s less crowded and because many people are out of town.
Planet B—A Place Like Earth—But Not Too Much Like Earth
A large branch of Mahayana Buddhism is concerned with a mythical pure land and the Amida Buddha. I’m not going there both because I have doubts about reincarnation and because, I do admit, I’m not so pure at heart to qualify.
Kyle Rittenhouse: Open Carry Equals Open Madness
Some things attract flies and other vermin. Some events do too, only we’ve become so self-deluded we tend to get away with calling them “peaceful protests”
The Inevitable Ticking Clock
If I were to write a detailed summary of what I think of Ron DeSantis, it would be lengthy. I saw what I expected: it was a request for money
Taking a Closer Look at DUNE, the Movie
OK, Homer. Who could have a problem believing that a lineage could be traceable and cohesive after 20,000 years.
After Many A Summer Dies the Swan—Remembering Axis Sally and Tokyo Rose
Those times our country and much of the world were in dire peril, there were people who disseminated information that aided our enemies.
Is Hope Really the Gateway to Despair?
If hope is the gateway to despair, to paraphrase Thomas Merton, pessimism, or the abandonment thereof, doesn’t sound likely to lead anywhere worth going either.
Teaching History—Were There Ever Any Heroes?
“They don’t teach history anymore,” said participants on Friday morning’s Morning Joe.