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...

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. John Muir When I was at the University of Denver in the late sixties; come...

(3 AM reading material for Elizabeth Warren at senate climate-change all-nighter) 2039 was an excellent year for America as the “Russian...

How I have longed for this day every day for eight years! Now, at last, I can sleep, work, read, write, make art, plant some lilacs,...

To The Seattle Times Ferguson can happen anywhere, anytime. It tried to happen Wednesday morning on the #40 bus heading north from...

About fifteen years ago a friend of mine and I had a huge argument about (retinal) drawing. One day I suggested the possibility that one...