Something happened on Tuesday, as I began researching this column — I wound up having to give myself a COVID test.
A good friend had just tested positive and, well, we had recently gotten together. I needed to see if I was OK. I...
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03 October 2023
A megalomaniac is a pathological egotist, someone with a psychological disorder who exhibits symptoms like delusions of grandeur and an obsession with greatness, power or wealth.
A ...
27 September 2023
If the right gets its way, maybe in a decade or two, the United States will be free of its slave-owning past.
All gone – gone with the wind. It’s just not taught anymore. Yeah, we had a civil war – about “states’ rights” – and...
03 September 2023
‘Panem et circenses’, said the Romans - ‘Bread and circuses’.
This maxim served the Romans well. In times of crisis and whenever they needed a distraction from military defeats or political infighting at the highest levels, they...
30 August 2023
As I trek toward the Great Unknown, as life’s struggles seem to intensify, some odd questions keep recurring.
Art — what is it again? Why does it matter? How does it matter? What does it mean to be “good” at it?
That last...
23 August 2023
Realizing that I’ve been taking something for granted — one grain of infinity — is never an abstraction. It generally happens by whack and wallop.
Oh yeah, the knee. The knee. It’s kind of important.
A crucial part of the...
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