I seem to remember the early Xtians as a rather tough lot, most of them anyway. At least in the movies, where they were always being eaten by lions…
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As a rule, I prefer hanging out in cities rather than the natural environment. But I make an exception for rivers. It may be because rivers are so…
Some people are born travelers; others are made. Most of me fits the first category, but my stomach goes along reluctantly. My very first recollections of travel…
How can you tell when Sam Alito is lying? Right, when his lips are moving. The Supreme Court candidate has not only been nominated buy a consummate liar,…
Many years ago I was in a wedding party back in New York. It was a big Italian-American wedding and somebody told me that the pretty girl I “stood…
For all their support of the teaching of creationism or intelligent design in school science curricula the political Right are fiercer Darwinists than the Left. Social Darwinists. To…
What is it with Americans? A few years ago they let their Congress file articles of impeachment on a president who engaged in private , consensual, adulterous sex and then lied…
Remember the eponymous Alien in the movie? Remember when the Alien attached himself to that guy’s face, then grew in his intestines and gnawed his way out? Yuk! He…
When news began to flow out of Australia about Lebanese immigrants being attacked by gangs of “whites” on Sydney’s beaches I was reminded of what one of former colleagues on…
In 2002 I was giving some lectures on American Public Administration at four universities in Beijing. I wasn’t convinced that American style PA was transportable to China; there, and…