Writing | Arthur Bacon

The Mosconi Cup Dilemma

I would like to offer some thoughts as to why the United States is not winning Mosconi Cups. There are many reasons of course and for one...

The Mongol Rally

(Letter to the editor of the Yale Alumni Magazine) My girlfriend is a Yalie cum laude and a Fulbright scholar and I am, by the skin of my...

The Rise and Fall of Amerika

The Rise and Fall of Amerika Or a Brief Chronology of the Origins of World War III Friday, 20 January 2017: just after noon, after having...

The Debates!

Lets face it; we all love hating Donald Trump. There used to be crucifixions, Christians and lions and gladiators, and then bear baiting,...

Adolescent Stress And How To Ameliorate It

A great deal is being written about adolescent stress these days, and its concomitant long-term adverse health effects. I would like to...

Common Scents

I saw a man and a woman walking up the trail from Carkeek Canyon toward the parking lot yesterday as we were about to pull out and the...

One God

Since you go to a church, any church, I think you should consider a few things about your belief in God, His “son”, The Holy Ghost,...

Trayvon Martin: Letter to the Editor of The New York Times

Every one of us with a three digit IQ knows who killed Trayvon Martin; the NRA. The NRA is the hand-maiden for the gun industry and...

Tim’s Vermeer. Penn and Teller.

First of all, what a dreadfully pretentious, expensive, meaningless, stupid idea to begin with; to make a copy of Vermeer’s The Music...

Why Stephen Lyman Is Not An Artist* (Letter to a Philistine)

*Remarks to an old college climbing, wrestling, skiing, rugby, drinking buddy When you told me that Stephen Lyman was “the second...