I guess an illustration of the Zeitgeist is that now a popular feature in the New York Times is their weekly “36 Hour” travel feature....

Recently I was at a birthday party for a friend’s wife at a cozy tavern along the shore of Lake Washington just north of Seattle. The...

Personally, I love government. I love my Social Security checks, Medicare, my Golden Age Pass; and I love the government agencies which...

Many years ago, when I took my little girls to see Namu, The Killer Whale at Sea World, Namu was having a bad day and refused to do the...

Generally, most people agree that, “You get what you pay for.” And, usually it is true. So, assuming most of us subscribe to this bit of...

I have been an atheist as long as I can remember. My parents took me to a Unitarian church when I was very little. Later, when we were...

I cannot understand all the fuss about the government’s tepid response to Hurricane Katrina. To be perfectly honest, all this carping is...

“Who feareth to suffer, suffereth already, because he feareth.” Montaigne *Depends. Brand name for adult male diapers. Although still to...

I didn’t get any Christmas presents the year my parents got divorced. My mother was busy playing Handel in Heidelberg and my father was...

We had a few graduate students over for dinner the other night and one of them said that “Catherine the Great was fucked to death by a...