The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new. • Samuel Beckett, Irish novelist, short story writer, and playwright [...]

I have celebrated Christmas in seven states and seven countries. Sadly, my family is now gone, wife and child, a [...]

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. • Albert Einstein  I have gone from washing [...]

Up on the roof of the world, people's priorities are different and humanity is saner.

Unlike the ever-anxious West resonant peace pervades Nepal, writes columnist Henry Bennett, who sought a refuge from the headline-news storm and found it.

What with the looming climate catastrophe, the American Republican Party now becoming the Fascist Party, COVID waves one, two, three, [...]

In 1893, President Grover Cleveland sent the U.S. Marines to the Kingdom of Hawaii to overthrow the monarchy. The goal, [...]

I have long held the belief that conservatives are genetic mutants. Now, trends in recent science are  highlighting actual genetic [...]

You ever get the feeling the world's filling up with bastards? I do. What I want to know is what [...]

Travel has made me into what's now called a Hybrid, a category whose numbers have been exploding in the past [...]

I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in [...]