On why the Republicans will not cooperate to save the economy, but need to make Obama fail, and the country be damned. In his Lincoln’s birthday address in Springfield, Illinois…
Over 25 years of guiding and escorting tours of Americans to foreign countries on four continents I occasionally heard my fellow countrymen expression sentiments about the places we visited that…
My old friend, Danny, much more techno-savvy than I will ever be, suggested recently that I might want to consider buying a Kindle, the digital book reader that it sold…
Elsewhere in these pages I have discussed the subject of systems and how they go bad. (See Archives No. 41.7: Systems and Traditions) In this piece I would like to…
I have made much in these pages of the claim that religious belief is based on nothing but a need to fill in the unknowns of life with something, a…
In Roman times the legions used to bring along with them a soothsayer who would sacrifice some unlucky chicken or other animal and “read” the auspices in their entrails to…
I saw Obama actually give George Bush a hug a couple of times, once after his speech, and again just before Bush got on the presidential chopper to leave the…
By way of some curious synaptic connection when, I first picked up this book, I had a reverie of a personal experience in the Chinese city of Xian many several…
For the past couple of years my local public radio station has adopted a new fundraising mantra—asking me to donate my car to the station in return for a “possible…
Barack Obama on 60 Minutes told us that he wants to fix the country, that he will take actions to do so and, if it they don’t work, he will find policies…