Meditations

As the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attack on America approaches, allow me to be among the first to offer some proposed insights into the twisted heaps of our psyches…

Probably the smartest animal on Earth, other than humans, is the Orca, projectively known as “Killer Whales.” Of course smarts, as seen with humans, is a very different thing than…

For all those women and men whose mothers have died, for all the women who could not have children, and for all the children whose mothers didn’t want to have…

Sometimes you read a sentence that stops you in your tracks. Great writing takes the reader beyond words, and generates a moment of beauty and insight. I came across such…

Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, in his response to President Biden’s address to a joint session of Congress, uttered words that will go down in infamy: “Hear me clearly:…

The most difficult thing for humans to do is to be self-knowing. We all think we know ourselves, and that may be so, as far as self-knowledge goes. But self-knowledge…

Did you know that Neanderthals actually had bigger brains than we Homo saps? They clearly did not possess symbolic thought however, just “purely intuitive insight” as paleoanthropologists ambiguously put it.…

In the past month, since the beginning of a “return to normalcy” in America, there have been 53 mass shootings. Pause for a moment and let that number sink in.…