I haven’t attended Sunday mass in over four decades. Someday I will tally up what I learned by reading the Sunday papers or a book against the intellectually-wasteful hours…
If Bush and Cheney and their intellectually-challenged supporting cast aren’t enough to make you mutinous, then the loyal-to-the-bunker Republican congressman and wimpy Democrats, incompetent bureaucrats, and a Supreme Court with…
Even though I recently published a book about how I enjoy being a stranger when I travel abroad (detect a shameless plug for my book here? [1] ), the sentiment is often…
On cable’s Military Channel, a scarcely-disguised promo-propaganda organ for the Pentagon and defense industry I am watching a former Navy Seal, handsome, fit and head shaved, like Vin Deisel in some…
Since the recent arrival and “bestseller” status of several books by Atheists (no doubt employed by the credulous as proof that the Antichrist has invaded the publishing business) there has…
Previously, in these pages [No. 42.3] we considered that urban planning might be regarded as a process of getting things (land uses) in the proper places, like getting one’s socks in their…
I used to spend a lot of July 4ths abroad, several of them in Britain when I was leading travel-study groups of students. I enjoyed bringing over with me…
The late Cal Tech Physicist and Nobel Laureate, Richard Feynman, used to employ an image of the earth rotating and, as it revolved, there would be a line of people…
The guys on cable’s The Man Show are slavering over slutty bimbettes bouncing their your-know-whats on a trampoline and smirking over their jokes about penises, drinking and toilet activities. Guy stuff, with…
There was a time when the Giant Panda slept rather quietly behind a giant screen. It always seem to prefer things that way, languishing in the desultory way of giant…