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…
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# Journal Entry
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…
To other readers. One of my “resolutions for 2009 is to complete a book dedicated to my five grandchildren. It’s tentatively titled THE BABO GOSPELS (“Babo” is the sobriquet my…
It’s an odd title for a book that is mostly about Japan. But, then, the relationship between these two Asian states is an odd one. Japan can rightly credit its…
The sheer silliness of the stranglehold religion has upon government is represented by the dispute that has arisen over Barack Obama’s decision to select pastor-bigot Rick Warren of the Saddleback…
Daughter Laura sent me a bunch of photos she found of the aqua alta in Venice these days—the highest in over 30 years. It is a preview of what global warming will…
I have no issue with the man or woman sitting beside me in a café or on a bus mumbling prayers to themselves because their back hurts, a loved one…
What happens to our consciousness after we die? What some people call a soul, they believe, will head off for heaven, the afterlife, Elysian fields, nirvana, or another round of…
In 1992, my dear friend, Sue, and I flew into then Bombay (now Mumbai) from London on December 6, for a few days before taking ship to other Indian ports…
As we gather round our turkeys—and have a chuckle at the video of Sarah Palin blathering her nonsense oblivious to a farmhand gruesomely dispatching turkeys in the background—those of us…