When I was a kid (back around 1948, or the Late Cretaceous) my favorite beverage was a soft drink called Pee Wee A. It came in two flavors, orange and grape. My favorite was grape. It was very
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Vol.103.6: THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS FOR BABYLON
Las Vegas is a fake city, a national casino, whorehouse, and gun show venue founded by organized crime in the desert and dressed up in the icons of real cities. Having no historical renown or other
Vol.103.5: AMERICA’S PTSD
Ken Burns’ 12-hour Vietnam documentary series is airing this week to great fanfare from PBS, as though the treatment of this controversial war might be finally put to bed by its treatment
Vol.103.4: FREE SPEECH
I might be doing something wrong—nobody has tried to muzzled me, to shut down Dragon City Journal, although somebody did comment recently that I should just “shut up” (it was gratifying to
Carpe Diem: 2017.09.12 WHEN LIBERALS GET STUPID
Among the rules I used to I part to my charges when I was leading tours to various parts of the world was Never piss off your waiter (Waitress could apply as well, but in most countries
Carpe Diem: 2017.09.07 LEAST BRETHREN
In these pages, and in my forthcoming book, The Babo Gospels: Essays and Parables on Faith and Reason, I have hammered the point that religion is arguably the greatest causus belli
Carpe Diem: 2017.09.04 APRES LE DELUGE: THE LAST NATURAL DISASTER
Okay climate change deniers get ready for a diaper change. Calling Hurricane Harvey a “natural disaster” is a joke. It involved nature, of course, but what made it a disaster is largely a product
Vol 103.3: ECLIPSE NUMBER TWO
The eclipse is now history, but the thoughts it occasioned are still relevant. So here they are.
Eclipse is a facile metaphor; something gets in the way, blocks something out, obscures what’s
Carpe Diem: 2017.08.22 ECLIPSE NUMBER ONE
Most people, I assume, thought that Donald Trump’s August 21 speech about Afghanistan was about Afghanistan. It wasn’t. It was a vague, cliché ridden wall of blather and hackneyed ideas that
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