It’s March 19, 2023, a Sunday and a day purportedly designated internationally to honor men, but as a holiday, it’s sort of a flop. It’s not a great day for florists or restauranteurs, or for retail sales or for holiday bookings. But perhaps it’s meaningful if we take a moment…

The deity was bored. It was lonely and bored, but the concepts were without divine context. It had been lonely and bored forever, although forever was not as long, initially as it thereafter became. Not only was there nothing to do. There was absolutely nothing. Period. And exclamation point as…

After a bit over three quarters of a century, the “sounds of silence” have acquired a new meaning, one no longer political. They now represent the realization, one often addressed by many of all ages, regarding the importance of appreciating the value of solitude and self-reliance. Not because others have…

I first read Roger Zelazny’s Creatures of Light and Darkness over a half century ago. It was sort of interesting but hard to grasp. I hadn’t realized that, in large part, it was an epic poem. At the time, I’d not yet come to understand poetry. I wonder if Zelazny…

It’s March 15, 2023. Once again the Ides of March. Two millennia, six decades and seven years ago, more or less (given Pope Gregory’s machinations with the calendar), Gaius Iulius Caesar was assassinated by a number of the colleagues he’d pardoned multiple times, including his reputed illegitimate son, Marcus Junius…

The answer to the most fundamental of questions, “why”, may be very enlightening concerning a person’s fundamental cognitive programming. Among the diverse potential responses, two are very brief, precise and telling. They are “why not” and “because. Seemingly similar, they are introspectively very different, one is passive, “why not”, shifting…

The Biden administration’s economic policies are clearly a disaster, largely because of the administration’s insane efforts to destroy the Russian and Chinese economies, rather than concentrating on improving our own. That is not a partisan issue as both major political parties bear at least some blame, but the architects of…

On June 11 of this year, 2023, it will be two millennia, three centuries, four decades and six years since the death of Alexander III of Macedon, really of Macedon, Greece, Persia, Asia, and the world. And not just the “world” he ruled but from many perspectives, our own world…

Protests in the United States, once a sacrosanct right, have become tolerable only when deemed politically correct by politicized leaders of the criminal justice system (an oxymoron) and their rubber stamp echoes in the lazy, politicized judicial system. The purported guardians of the truth and defenders of the citizenry…