Word games are tempting in a world fraught with apparently imminent disaster (or is that eminent), but they’re not productive by themselves, not if problem resolution is the goal. …

I’ve long believed that holidays, all holidays, are days best suited for introspection, reflection and reevaluation rather than celebration, especially those based on some ethical principle, like today. So today is a day to reflect on Thomas Jefferson’s hypocrisy, which we’ve inherited, but also on the warnings of two presidents…

An introductory query might go something like this: Evil or merely inept? Which is worse? In what combination? An initial response might speculate: Well, inept evil would probably be the least negative. Unfortunately, evil and inept is what we have, with evil all too apt. Would a less than perfect…

What if sentience was first? Self-awareness with utterly nothing about which to be aware? Absolutely nothing existing, no being of any kind in any sense, just the sentience. How not to be traumatized, but for the fact that trauma did not exist. Absolutely nothing did. Not even timid time. Certainly…

For some reason, this morning I was recalling the Christmas season while we were at the Citadel and how our Christmas traditions impacted my whole life, and impacted it profoundly. I recall that we sold ourselves to the “knobs” in a parody of Saturnalia in order to raise funds to…

(A satire out of sorts) The lid on Pandora’s Box refuses to budge and out pops an explosive date, apparently somehow akin to July 4, 1776: January 6, 2021, and now a judicial decision, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, all joining the Black Lives matter movement, the Cancel Culture…

In the cases of Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992), the United States Supreme Court rendered ill-considered decisions that have polarized the United States electorate for half a century. They involved lazy, ill-conceived and hasty jurisprudence designed to address important…

Hubese una vez, en la hermosa ciudad de Manizales pero desde Bogotá, una mujer que la llamaban Juanita. Una mujer muy, muy especial. Una mujer con una historia larga y complicada pero más que todo una mujer hermosa y ejemplar. El mes de junio trae bajos muy bajos y altos…

The Colombian and United States Experiences Absence of Systemic Faith in Democracy: The Colombian and United States Experiences Faith in democracy is at a nadir. And with good reason. Democracy today is at best dysfunctional, in large part, because of voter participatory apathy. Perhaps it always has been. Widespread complaints…