Some guy with a name composed of left over Scrabble letters (no vowels) from one of those Balkan states composed of a few hundred pissed-off people who are still arguing…
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# Journal Entry
When I first encountered Beijing the year after Tiananmen Square the streets still jingled with bicycle bells and he soft whirr of the chains of Flying Pigeon bicycles and the…
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…