The Mexican National Elections are coming June 2, 2024.  This is usually not-news for us in the USA but this year, things are a little...

Books    Going to Meet the Man, James Baldwin. I found these stories powerful and each one is different even as always centering on, “the...

THE HUNDRED YEARS’ WAR ON PALESTINE Rashid Khalidi When something is really really complicated, I try to simplify. In chess, for example,...

Consider how much safer we have made the world with incremental changes in our machines, environments, and behaviors. Playgrounds have...

MOVIE: One Life with Anthony Hopkins. I bawled…….. STREAMING: The Gentlemen: Netflix Shogun: Hulu PODCASTS: History of rock in 500 songs...

YEP! I KNOW HER! AND JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT YOU HAD SEEN EVERYTHING........

MOVIES: The Holdovers (In theaters near you!) I don’t feel at home in the world anymore (Netflix) BOOKS: Innocents Abroad, Mark...

“Not your dad’s Oldsmobile:” an advertising slogan many years back, one attempting to stem the flow of active choices then favoring...

Mousy Cats and Sheepish Coyotes by John Shiva This is a fascinating book that on reflection, uses a multitude of studies involving many...

Follow up Article on guaranteed income: Basic Monthly Income and Social Support Transforms Lives of the Homeless, Study Finds...

I sometimes think about the day to day life my parents experienced in the 1950’s through 1970’s when they were raising children and...

Paul Fussell  was an English Literature professor at Rutgers and Penn State. His advanced degree came from publishing and discussing...

The following is a short article reviewing a study of what happens when poor people get supplemental incomes and how that income is...

Christmas is coming. This may be for many, the final family dinner celebration for the year—a tradition that other times of the year...

Songs:   Oh Well by Fleetwood Mac Nothing Else Matters, Apocalyptica Goodbye Old Girl, Art Farmer Streaming:   Fiske on Netflix Lessons...

I plan to go to a school board meeting this coming year, to both listen and observe the Board and the audience. Newsfeeds are ramping up...