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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...

Fishing Girls Cars Fishing

In the spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to fishing. It was Lord Tennyson who said that a young man’s fancy lightly turns to...

Connecting the Buzz

For if one link in nature’s chain might be lost, another and another might be lost, till this whole system of things should vanish...

Silly Science Part III

There was a skit on the Monty Python comedy show back in the 1980’s. It began with a huge Greek statue of a man....

Surviving The Harder Hits

Sometimes when I empty the trash, I shake the can until its empty. Then I look into the bottom of the barrel and more...

Courage and Decision Making

Mark Twain once said, “Collect the facts quickly and then distort them at your leisure.” An essential in making proper decisions is the former...

Sailing Opportunity – Volunteers Needed!

Here's an opportunity.  You and some REALLY close friends have been given the chance to go sailing on a yacht! Sound like fun?  Well hang...