Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who traveled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit, and…
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The map that that showed the location of his house was one I had copied from a book was little more than a sketch itself; the map I bought in…
The guy who parked his Ninja crotch-rocket a few feet from my table at the café was offering his disquisition on 911. First of all, the Israelis were behind…
The 1997 “handover” (actually repatriation) of the erstwhile British Crown Colony of Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China was an event that, in addition to its many political…
I tried to imagine how St. John the Divine got up to his cave near the summit of the Greek island of Patmos. He must have been in pretty…
Here’s a little Dr. Science quiz for you. Several years ago there were two science fiction movies that were released around the same time. One was called The Incredible…
Over nearly 30 years of escorting various groups of Americans to thirty or so foreign countries I have had some unusual requests. Most of them I have been able…
Christ died on the cross for your sins. (Wow, even 1947 years before I was born, I’m thinking. How can that be!?) [1] This is the hook upon which the…
While Red Staters are played like fish, baited with promises that America will one day be run with a Christian sharia , and hooked on the fear that terrorists will soon be…
Annie Proulx, who seems to love writing about people dealing with a lot of internal torment, let some of her own out when the movie based on her short story…