Category: Daily Column

The bloom is off the rose.

Last month was one of the coldest Aprils in the last decades. It followed a cold March, which...

To a growing number of people, Imaginary Problems…

What would pseudo-intellectuals do without a steady stream of Imaginary Problems? They have to eat expensive organic food,...

The Burma junta and its American version.

Early this week, a Category 3 hurricane struck the nation of Burma. That country is ruled by a...

Identify, understand, and love those who hate us.

All of us in the nominally Christian countries are under attack by many groups of people who hate...

John Brignell, the smartest man in England.

John Brignell, the smartest man in England. Once in a great while, there is a distillation of wisdom...

One of the battles below.

There’s a line in a song from Camelot, “the angels have chosen to fight their battles below.” That...

Either, or.

In the world, we separate cream from milk and wheat from chaff. We are given the opportunity to...

The Culture of Looking Beyond.

The Culture of Looking Beyond. The very worst of people prefer death and doing nothing to protecting life...

The “news” is rarely what we are told.

Most of us think of reporters as brave, enlightened souls who intrepidly uncover facts about corruption and evil...

A thing that sustains their own lives has become…

If carbon dioxide were to disappear, every plant and animal would die. We need to have an atmosphere...