Sacrifice in Afghanistan
Reading the newspaper summary of the life of Joseph Lemm—who was killed with five other American troops in Afghanistan two ...
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I Wanna Be Sedated
The harbingers of civilizational collapse and impending apocalypse have become so very common as to encourage a serious case of ...
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Bob Dylan Chooses Hired Guns Over Cancellations
The U.S. State Department has warned Americans abroad to steer clear of numerous sites in Italy that are apparently threatened ...
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“In Flanders Fields,” read by Leonard Cohen
Marking Remembrance Day in Commonwealth nations, Canadian poet, songwriter and singer Leonard Cohen recites “In Flanders Fields,” a poem written ...
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The Concern of a Canine
Yours truly is not a particularly friendly guy, as his friends would readily attest. My dog, a fourteen pound mutt ...
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Paying God Back (in Oregon)
So there has been another act of nihilistic mass murder in America, this time at Umpqua Community College in Oregon, ...
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Crime and Punishment
It’s not easy for a nation to see itself in the mirror. And it’s even harder when the visage in ...
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Tennessee Blues
At this point, we don’t know their names, but four U.S. Marines were shot to death today in Chattanooga, Tennessee ...
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Inspirational Thought of the Day
Today while re-reading Abraham Joshua Heschel’s great work The Prophets, I came across this passage which put me in a ...
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