Celebrating oneself
If you’re as incurably literary a person as I am, any library in proximity is a beautiful haven. There are [...]
How fragile we are
From the very start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there were hints in the press and suspicion in the medical community [...]
Memories of a kingpin
Sheldon Adelson, a one-time tour operator out of Boston, who parlayed an annual electronics and computer convention into a casino [...]
Someone call the emperor
American football these days is much about brain health. If you happened to be an alien examining our barking species [...]
Summer of love
Since the start of the pandemic, an Italian phrase has been on my mind: abbiamo soltanto gli uni e gli [...]
The art of foraging
Over the course of our now nearly year-long isolation from the cruelties of the corona virus, the daily act of [...]
Many too few (a provocation)
Let's for the sake of all that's provocative and profane toss a bucket of chilled blood on enlightened thinking. Let's [...]
A bridge too far?
The Afghanistan peace process, which, less than a year ago, began with so much fanfare, has apparently devolved into a [...]
The law according to basalt
It was the winter of 1901 when French mining engineer, geologist, and archaeologist by passion Jacques de Morgan — who [...]
Cometh the blue people
Some old TV hair color commercial came with the line, "Only your hairdresser knows for sure." I was not much [...]
Superhero on a budget
I was listening to a podcast with Robert Downey Jr. the other day. He gained worldwide notoriety for playing Iron [...]