She (looking out the window from her window seat): “Will you look at those clouds, Sugar,” poking his arm with her elbow, which is in turn transmitted to me, “that’s…
A month ago I posted the first part of this subject and expected to be writing a quite different second part. But sometimes your mind wanders off in a different…
It is now almost ten years since I posted “Are You Terrorized Yet?” in these pages. I went back to look at it because I think I might be closer…
And I am writing this to clear up any confusion on the matter. Why? You wonder, as clearly you can quickly discern that James A. Clapp (see below) is far…
Your Big Brother Government’s Brother Just when you thought it was safe to check out that porn site, or if you are just curious that there are formulas for making…
In 2004 I was giving lectures on the subject of American public administration for the California State University system to four universities in Beijing. Supposedly, they wanted their students to…
I sometimes wonder if, like people of color, homosexuals, or other groups acutely self-conscious of their oppression, that as an infidel I have more acute tendency to view the world…
One aspect of the rationale for Donald Trump’s ramped up the trade war with the PRC is that the Chinese re deceitful thieves (see, it takes one to know one)…
“You’ve gotta thank the Lord, right?” That is what faux journalist Wolf Blitzer* of CNN asked a woman (holding her 19-month old child) who survived, by quickly running from her…
We observe in the news with some frequency heart-lifting acts that are arguably inspired by pure altruism.* These are usually situations that are highly localized and dramatic. We see first…