September 2, 2024

New Walls to Tear Down

The new ‘Reagan’ movie offers an opportunity to meditate on what faces us in November.

March 20, 2020

The real danger in a pandemic

The loss of our civil liberties and economy are not nothing.

November 3, 2019

JOKER: The Warning

When asked if his clown make-up made him part of the protests and riots raging across Gotham, Joker defends himself with "No...I don't believe in anything." Therein are both the lie of the movie and the hope of mankind

September 14, 2018

The real problem with Nike's new slogan

It's the same problem the old slogan has.

July 4, 2018

Liberty: Yours, Mine, and Ours

Punishing society's producers is a culture-killing death from within, suicide. Those who would devour the golden egg-laying goose, be warned: not only will there be no gold, but there will be no more eggs.

May 27, 2018

Life after (Near) Death

There is one truth with which we all agree: there is pain across all the world, suffering without measure. Why?

February 4, 2018

What Really Matters

The fruits of the earth are fleeting.

October 27, 2017

White privilege is not the cause of racism

White privilege is not the cause of the plague of racism.  Black entitlement is not its cure.  Slavery was not its source.

October 6, 2017

Weird Is Not Unique

The sirens' call that we are special because we are different assaults us, even as it programs us.

September 19, 2017

Flowing beyond gender fluidity

A short illustration of how else people can "self-identify."

August 5, 2017

A reminder of how science can exist

Science is objective, not personal.  It's beyond politics.  And it requires an ordered world.