I drive a BMW. It’s the best damn car I ever owned. [1] I bought it because it combines Italian design and German engineering; not because of the time when I…
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# Journal Entry
It has lately come to the attention of DCJournal that Iraq “Insurgents” have hacked into the computers of US soldiers and installed a virus that defaults their web browsers to Dragon…
In America around this time it’s “No. 1 Season.” The Golden Globes, the Grammys, the Miss America Pageant, the Super Bowl, the Academy Awards, the Winter Olympics, and the…
Back in the Spring of 1979 I was on the roof of a pensione in Sorrento, Italy, looking east as the sun played in the waters of the Bay of…
Movies and travel often evoke similar emotions. Each can transport us to other times and other places. Nowhere in film genre is this more evident than in the…
George Washington cut down a cherry tree and when confronted about it could not lie. Our current George, the brush-cutting president can’t seem to tell the truth. Whether he’s…
I can only remember one occasion on which I had what might be called a truly religious experience. It was my First Communion and I think I actually believed…
Queer Studies? QUEER Studies? I guess it was only a matter of time. DePaul University of Chicago, the largest Catholic University in America, is launching a minor…
The Academy Awards are coming up. I can never watch them without wondering about my dear late friend Denis Sanders. Denis walked up there twice to accept an…
Knowing a little something about a culture’s food can help in understanding something of their history and character. One doesn’t find a lot of people dashing off to Scandinavian…