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No One Puts Bibi in the Corner

The human toll exacted by Bibi Netanyahu on the Palestinian people has been staggering. I wonder where he got that idea from?

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Understanding “The Devil” Concept Through Contract Law

During the time when superstition reigned, The Devil concept provided a great organizing principle for why agreements should be honored. Surely we’ve progressed beyond the concepts that gave order during superstitious times, right?

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Snakes and Ladders: On Loading Screens

We hope for change to be positive. Diminishing loading screens may have primed us to consider change itself as positive, no matter the direction it goes.

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Ron DeSanctimonious: A Brief (Vocabulary) Lesson

The Republican lexicon might as well be an alternate Marvel Universe.

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PROGRESS THROUGH DEFICIT SERIES – #1. INFERNO HIDING: ON CLIMATE AND COMPROMISE

Explain the present.

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The Necessity of Companionship: Re-Reading Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men

Of Mice and Men is, unfortunately, a microcosm of the American West unique in its circumstances, but not in its outcome.

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Selfies…with Books! 2023 Year in Review

Books Read November 21, 2023: Nausea, by John Paul Sartre Somewhere in between these dates: To Live, by Yu Hua October 11, 2023: Caste: The Origins of our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson September 19, 2023: Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck February 25, 2023: The Three Body Problem, by Cixin Liu Pieces Written The […]

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2022 Selfies…with Books! Year in Review

If there was a theme to the books this year, it would have to be this: Affirmation.

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The Bomb Everyone Saw Fused

I invite you to think carefully about what message his countenance suggests. Anger, defiance, irritation—I see desperation. I see it as the bomb everyone saw fused.

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What’s Old is New Again

Artifice is part of the story. Accept this premise so that you may be equipped to reject it.

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