Full disclosure: like Brett Cavanaugh I am also an alumnus of a Jesuit high school, although we were not a prissy rich-boy boarding school that produced guys who sexually-assaulted women…
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# Journal Entry
In a strange way today’s funeral orations delivered by the likes of Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Miss Lindsey Graham, and even, can you believe it, by unindicted war criminal…
Ja, ja!, we made it! Ooom-pah, Ooom-pah, Ooom-pah! Ilse Koch, the notorious Nazi “Bitch of Buchenwald” concentration camp (1945); Kirstjen Nielsen, U. S. Secretary of Homeland Security, “Bitch of Brownsville” concentration…
The obit/tributes to Anthony Bourdain continue to pour in. As a former tour guide, independent traveler and resident abroad it is almost reflexive to draw some contrasts with our different…
Ba Feng Ku, Dragon City Journal Senior Correspondent ©2009 UrbisMedia I interviewed Sebastian Gerard in Hong Kong about his forthcoming work of fiction, his third, The River Dragon’s Daughters:…
I recently completed a novel set in China around the lives of four Chinese women over most of the 20thcentury. Readers of these pages will be hearing about it soon…
Come Sunday (20I8), opens with an inflight airplane scene which the Rev. Bishop Carlton Pearson engages a woman seatmate in conversation that leads to his apparently obsessive need to bring…
Don’t know how clever a political actor Kim Jong un is. Not much is known about him beyond his youth and goofy haircut. But this past Easter he met with…
As I write this there are Christian pilgrims in Jerusalem thronging the Via Dolorosa, some of them lugging wooden crosses as their Savior reputedly did long ago, reliving his “stations…
Chinese tonal rendering of “me, too” I recently completed a book on the subject of religion. (It will be available soon, so be patient.) I did not, however, begin…