Recently I received in an un-solicited email one of those nit-wit jokes that goes as follows: Research has led to the discovery of the heaviest element yet known to science.…
When I was in my Jesuit high school were taught to put then letters AMDG on the top of our papers and tests. The letters were for the Latin motto…
I have an old friend who speaks of the United Nations with derision and fear. He is not quite of the “UN black helicopter” fearing ilk, but expresses the oft-cited…
I just finished an online “chat” with Ethan, of my bank’s tech support. We posted our sentences back and forth until, mirabile dictu, my problem was solved and I could access…
China’s astounding emergence onto the world stage economically has been largely portrayed through images and accounts of its great cities. It has some 120 cities that are over a million…
“In the beginning was the Word” (John 1:1) “. . . and soon there more words” (Jim 3:23) “. . . and most of these words were bullshit.” (Sebastian 6:19).…
The campaign mantra of the Clinton administration back in the 1990’s is now part of American political lore. “It’s the economy, stupid.” By the end of his presidency there was…
Just until after the election. [I have previously had much to say about this issue in these pages. See Archives nos. 2.2, 5.12, 21.2 (which is about the 2004 election), 29.1,…
Recently arrived in my email was an emotional message with many photos of the victims of the Holocaust (the one in which some 6 million Jews were victim). It had…
Many years ago I was in Hall 15, The Leonardo Room of the renowned Uffizi Gallery in Florence. At one end of this particular room was, on an easel and…