My thoughts on life and work in America seem to have changed little since wrote this piece in the second year of the Obama administration. If anything, my disappointments are…
8.26.2015 The “character’ of Chinese woman. © UrbisMedia-Ltd. 2013
During my hiatus from DCJ as my websites have been undergoing an updating and facelift I actually considered whether I wanted to return to writing essays at all. A lot…
Even a contemptible idiot who says whatever passes beneath the orange wombat tail he wears on his head can stumble upon a correct statement. I am not referring to anything…
7.22.2015
In Sicily, the Villa Romana del Casale rests in the commune of Piazza Armarina near Enna. Like Pompeii or Herculaneum, the villa, famous for its magnificent and well-preserved mosaics, is…
.President Obama got some great reviews for his eulogy for the Black victims of the Charleston massacre a couple of days ago. Segments went, as the saying goes these days,…
6.29.2015 Justice Clarice Thomas, clearly unhappy about some recent SCOTUS decisions.
How my country achieved greatness through racism and brutality Yesterday, I heard on television a former American soccer player and now commentator on the FIFA Women’s World Cup remark that…
Since (and before) Michael Brown was gunned down by officer Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri and subsequent uses of police deadly force such that a black person is killed by police…