Human Voices

This is "Eclipse" built in 2009 for Roman Abromovich, a Russian oligarch and apparently an associate, or associate wannabe of o...

Public attention, at least amongst those of us who identify with what one loosely calls "the Left" sometimes like a game of spin t...

"By Diverse means we arrive at the same end." Thus begin the essays of Michel de Montaigne. It's both hopeful and ominous a...

 In the 18th century, the first self-operating Atmospheric engine was invented, according to legend, by an employee who got tired of sitting...

"I'd hate to think there's a national discussion going on that I'm not part of"  says the man in pajamas with a lap...

Expecting yet another round of amorphous generalities and off-the-shelf solutions to the problem of determining in advance just which solid ...

  Alex Jones and Michael Savage - two Gentlemen of Bologna - or do we pronounce it Baloney? They're both talking about civil war and not...

You don't generalize from small samples as anyone should be willing to confirm -- but not everyone does. Our president, for instance lo...

"I did it and I'm glad," a high school friend used to say as an act of high school bravado against the unsympathetic faculty a...

"Be totally unafraid to challenge entrenched interests and failed power structures," said Trump to graduating students at a uni...

But it's speeding up fast! Frankly I thought it would take longer, but the Comey firing and Lester Holt's interview have sudden...

Sarah Palin could probably smell Trump's new tower in the Philippines all the way from Alaska if it weren't for all the rotting car...

I can't remember who said it on MSNBC this morning, but it's been bothering me all day. To paraphrase:  "The entertainment val...

It was ages ago, during the Gore Vs Bush contest that Al Gore quoted some figure - lets say it was 4.5%. After the debate the Bush people s...

  C ertum est, quia impossibile . Tertullian  -  De Carne Christi It's been too easy to hope, to tempting to giggle as the Presid...

They jump up, they sit down. They jump up again, blank expressions on their face as though listening intensely to instructions or some inau...

Not so long ago in a neglected 1974 Ford Galaxie not so far away and parked toward the back of Donny’s Mira-Lago motors in Pahokee, Florida...

Yes, friends, I'm getting tired of the daily hate too, although the choice of words between hate and anger or perhaps  outrage  I hear g...

"Merry Christmas to all!" Blurts the RNC official Christmas message. and the expanding ripples of unanswered questions expand ou...

We're just starting to see some lip service paid to the cornucopia of fake news, libel and fraud that we call social media. The first ...

Memory is a funny thing when it applies to the world of politics. I wonder how many remember Dick Cheney's statement that the actions o...

Remember the scene where the scrawny Somalian kid says to Captain Phillips: "I'm the Captain now?" I think you will. I think y...

Huffington Post has never seemed an extremist publication, except perhaps to extremists, but today's article about the historic drop in...

Fuck it all.  I'm done. And no it's not just because the Republicans have instigated an idiot revolution, a Biblical flood of lies, ...

Hell is other people, said Jean-Paul Sartre. in No Exit , ( Huis clos )  and so is Democracy as I was reminded today in the New Yorker .  A ...

I was a Cub Scout.  I was a Boy Scout, I've considered myself to be an outdoorsman and I have a lot of pocket knives, many sheath knives...

I can hardly condemn people for getting much if not most of their news from the Internet. It's efficient, you can read many sources qui...

What are we so afraid of, we Americans?   Everything it seems. Everything is too dangerous, nothing is nearly safe enough now that life is ...

It's evidently difficult for Americans to tell an unsupported assertion from a hypothesis based on evidence. That's more true than i...

Back when America was great, or at least when Humpty Trumpty suggests it was, America was about free trade and open borders, the business of...

There's no denying that this election has brought out the worst in all of us. Listening to man-on-the-street interviews with Trump suppo...

Viruses like HIV that have an extremely high mutation rate, like moving targets in general,  are hard to fight .  The same thing seems to b...