Is that the last face I am ever to see; that Iraqi kid? He must be no more that twelve, and wearing some knock-off Michael Jordon No. 23 jersey, cheapo…
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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…
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…
Could we be on the edge of an amazing convergence of faith and reason; one that we never could have expected? Could Al Gore, the new, if second, environmentalist Nobel…
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…
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…
Would you fill up your SUV gas tank with 2% Low Fat Milk at $2.99.9 (there’s always a .9 on fuel prices)? Remember, currently gasoline is now averaging $3.29.9…
In the McDonalds in this western area of Beijing I am upstairs eating with ye-ye’s, ba-ba’s and kids and grandkids on a Saturday morning. Under the din I can hear the refrains…
E-coli, and frost. After “deportation of undocumented workers” there are no worse words that a California farmer fears to hear these days. In recent months California farmers have heard them…
And soon it won’t do any good to repent. We humans seem to delight in doomsday scenarios, and that’s probably because we always seem to conjure them in a…