When your life spans the rapid social change that has occurred from WWII to the present it is easy to reflect that you are living at a time of great…
Most of us, depending on what side of the theism line we are on, know how we feel about those on the other side. The theists worry that non-believers are…
“You have nowhere to go.” The last line of George Lucas’s THX 1138 In the 1951 movie The Day the Earth Stood Still, a single alien visitor and his powerful robot land…
For some reason I have never been able to wrap my perhaps overly rationalist mind around the whole business of The Resurrection. Somehow the whole “dying for the sins of…
The French had the right idea in 1789. That statement alone ought to royally piss off those right wing hypocrites who concocted “freedom fries” so they could keep up the…
No, I don’t mean in the Orwellian sense; I mean, more prosaically, down the stairs and out the door. My point of view here is less existential (although not entirely…
When I first saw television—I think it was 1948—I saw John Cameron Swayze delivering the news and pushing cigarettes on the Camel News Caravan. Then came what I was really interested in…
In these pages I have addressed or referred to “our Republican friends” from time to time. We have wondered and even worried about them. How could people we knew back…
We ain’t done yet. If we manage to avoid being swept away by an economic tsunami (Part 1) of our own making, or by a nuclear holocaust (Part Deux), much…
Randomly rational thoughts on Economics and the fate of the nation Following all the excitement and glitter and glamour of the election have you noticed how suddenly boring politics in…