Note: This essay contains material of a graphic sexual nature and may be offensive to young children and Republicans of most any age. [1] My college alumni magazine has a…
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“Long Live the Unity of the People of the World” Chinese poster, CA 1960s, by Qian Shengfa. Secular propaganda from an “officially” atheist country; but why do four smiling people…
Life is chain of moments, most of them of not great or significant moment. But life does have its moments for just about everybody, some get more than others; some get…
Many years ago I was wandering in the streets of Amsterdam—no I was not stoned on some hash that they sell right of the streets there. But I happened to…
I haven’t attended Sunday mass in over four decades. Someday I will tally up what I learned by reading the Sunday papers or a book against the intellectually-wasteful hours…
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…
In earlier essays on eating foreign food I concentrated on my personal tastes and distastes. This second part of a “taste for travel” recounts my experience as a tour…
A while back, in the Carpe Diem section of this journal I repeated and commented upon a Reuters news item that a Chinese government facility had been pressured to desist…
Back in 1979 I took delivery of a new VW diesel Rabbit in Amsterdam. Patty, the girls and I were about to embark on a four month sojourn through…
Not long ago, at the café where I feed my caffeine addiction, I met a guy who went to Canisius. Like me, he went to both high school and…