Islands have always figure prominently in my readings, or maybe just my “escapist” readings. I remember the first book I read, and it wasn’t a comic book, but a…
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# Journal Entry
When I was a boy we used to see, typically a few weeks after events, footage of WWII action on newsreels before watching a film noir at the local cinema.…
It was a heavenly day. The bright morning sun gave the sea a rich, translucent lapis lazuli blue, flecked with white tops, with a temperature of 24C and a let…
A “black hole” is a cosmological phenomenon wherein gravity is so powerful that it compresses matter to the point where a region of space-time is created from which escape to the outside…
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…
Two-hundred and thirty years after our country threw out a mentally-ill king it allowed into power an addled and coddled frat boy to frighten the people and usurp the power…
The word “homosexuals” came up only twice in the Bible sessions, once when Sy mentioned it in a list of social concerns, the second time when I brought it up…
“Xu Lin just told me that he has shot himself and he is dead,” one of the observing students whispered in my ear. Xu Lin would not be returning…
The phone-video of the last moments of Saddam Hussein seemed to provoke a surprising amount of protest, from his faithful, of course, but also from those that felt the rather…