Warning: this is a rather philosophical piece. I tried to find ways to work some sex and violence into it to be in keeping with so much of today’s media,…
Note: This session the U.S. Supreme Court will be hearing a case about the display of religious symbols, such as the cross, on public lands and property. Given the Establishmenrt…
Not being an aficionado of mystery genre I nearly passed on this European best seller and its investment of nearly 500 pages. But it contained two of my enduring, if…
Confession: I ask for the “senior discount” when I go to the movies. That way I don’t have to hand them the deed to my home. (Related confession: I sometimes…
I just happened to read these books in succession. I don’t review all the books I read, but I got to wondering if these two could be reviewed together. You…
Dear President Obama: “Yes we can!” was your political mantra of the campaign. And we believed. But, alas, more and more, it seems, you can’t. We were already disappointed with George…
Actuarially, Ted was on the young side, only seventy-seven when he died. But considering his brothers’ fates . . . . Given the eulogies and encomiums related to forty-seven years…
Once, long ago, I considered going the way of St. Francis of Assisi or Ignatius Loyola, forsaking the trappings of a wealthy and privileged life (as if I really had…
Anybody with half a brain knows that the Second Amendment to the Constitution was meant for militias and not for dimwitted men who have a compelling need for what could…
Every so often, like phoning up and old friend, I have to put this movie in the DVD player (I wore out the VHS version). Like David Lean’s Summertime (Archives, No. 29.…