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BOB BROWN: AGING POETICALLY, PART I

Too often, the human race is a race against time. Until recently, I was a sprinter in this race. Nowadays, blessed by the gift of a long life, my...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Twenty Reasons For Regime Change in Iran

1. The kidnapping of 66 Americans at the U.S. embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979,...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: When Is Trump’s Promise To Iran That “Help Is On The Way” Finally Going To Happen?

There was a horrific, chaotic carnage in the streets of Iran during a nationwide protest on January 8...

FRED FIRST: Missouri’s Capitol City: First-Time Tourist

I could not possibly do justice to my first visit a half hour south of...

BOB BROWN: The Triumph of Terrible Feelings Over Judgment

Today, our way of life is dominated by powerful, fast-moving, extreme emotions — especially anger,...

There’s a Reason It’s Called “March Madness”

As the NCAA basketball tournaments tipped off, researchers at The Institute of Diversity and Ethics in Sports did a little research.  They looked...

Rio de Janerio – The Marvelous City – Keeps Dr. Johnny’s Eyes Wide Open

The dirty, scrawny kids from the favelas sell goods wrapped in cellophane. They tie them onto the ends of sticks about five feet...

Vegetable Horrors of Childhood and Beyond

The asparagus of childhood appears in memory like dead green fingers from a cold can, and I can clearly see its gray green...

The Night The Belt Came Out

Ah! Winter in very rural Up-state New York. I was nine years old; my kid brother Denny, three years younger.  One problem: my...

In What Do You Find Profit? by Donna Hopkins Britt

The animated Disney film begins with a black screen.  In the darkness, one voice says, “Speed.  I am speed.”  And then the darkness...

Apple Chutney

It won’t be long now until I can eat cheese. Just that statement alone says a lot about how my Lenten exercise in...