Although Memorial Day in the United Sates is ostensibly a day for honoring soldiers killed in wars, it is, rather,…
Without having read the details and having no intention to do so, I am still wondering if The New York’s…
While days like Mother’s Day are corny, they do elicit memories. I think of my mother. She died at the…
“And there are those who claim that Big Data will supplant Sapiens and drag him helplessly along like a straw…
It takes a system to wage war, and civil and military obedience to support it.
Royal Opera House Covent Garden ‘Scene from Goethe’s Faust’ by Edward Henry Corbould, 1852 “All things transient are but a…
Educating people about who killed King, and why, and why it matters today, is the greatest service we can render to his memory.
“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but…
“All lies and jests Still a man hears what he wants to hear And disregards the rest” – “The Boxer,”…
“Accomplished fingers begin to play./Their eyes mid many wrinkles, their eyes,/Their ancient, glittering eyes, are gay.” – W. B. Yeats,…