A dual review of Crash (2004) and Gran Torino (2009) With the meltdown of the American economy since 2008, the further withering of employment in the almost vestigial manufacturing sector immigrants, documented or…
My non-theism is anything but static and settled. I don’t call myself an “atheist” because it coveys the notion of being against a supreme being. Since I, or anybody else…
I am prompted to my theme by a restaurant review I just read about a place in San Diego that claims to sense authentic Jersey cheese steak sandwiches. Got that…
There are a lot of reasons that my personal taste in motion pictures rebels at the latest piece of jejune flatulence by Quentin Tarantino, Inglourous Basterds. Tarantino, a director who is…
You’re probably not going to believe this. (Actually, you probably don’t believe anything I write.) In a group discussion in which the subject of the American military DADT (Don’t Ask,…
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other [Chinese Proverb] I am not a superstitious…
The media bring an almost sinister regularity to catastrophic events such as the recent earthquake in Haiti. First, just the brief news of location and a Richter registration; then the…
2010 is here. Happy New Year; the end of the world is nigh (again). But I have to warn you: According to the Mayan calendar (you mean your dentist didn’t…
I have been recently engaged in an exchange of emails with a dear old friend with whom I share what might be called fundamental liberal-humanistic political-social values that extend back…
I was telling a friend the other day that the first commercial flight I ever took I just walked on (to a smoke-belching American Airlines DC-6) dressed in a suit…