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BOB BROWN: What is Real?

Often, an old song plays in my mind. I cannot identify the situations that bring lyrics and melodies into my awareness. Somehow, I am reassured and comforted by them. Say...

FRED FIRST: Spiders I Have Worn

I see now how often what I chose to write about in my haphazard weekly...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Does Putin Consider Ukraine Russian Territory? If So, U.S. Negotiations Are In Trouble

President Putin, aka Vladimir the Terrible, is a second-world money-mongering autocrat, who commands the largest...

ANDY PITZER: Not-So-Trivial Geography

The absence of geography courses in American elementary and secondary school curriculums these days is...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest On July 4th Is An Ode To Gluttony

Joey Chestnut, 41, who is 6’1”, surprisingly only 230 pounds, and a personification of gluttony, won...

JEFF ELL: No More Chess – My Personal Checkmate

My experiment was a complete failure. The hope was to get better at something for which I have almost no natural aptitude. Specifically, the game...

DICK BAYNTON: The World: Survival or Surrender?

Only a few months ago Democrats were issuing slurs and insults about the confusion and disarray of Republicans. Now, since the election results in...

HAYDEN HOLLINGSWORTH: How Do You Worry Me . . .

. . . Let me count the ways.  Apologies to Elizabeth Barrett Browning but I just couldn’t resist. I had promised myself that I would...

HAYDEN HOLLINGSWORTH: The Times They Are A-Changing

It’s been 53 years since Bob Dylan penned those words and the song became one of his early signatures.  By his own admission he...

DICK BAYNTON: Religion, Faith & Politics

By mid-2015, the world population had reached just over 7.2 billion people. World population increases at the rate of more than 227,000 each day;...

LUCKY GARVIN: The Lower Lights

I love to listen to the hymns sung by the late, great baritone Tennessee Ernie Ford. One of them, “Let The Lower Lights Be...