Most people have heard of the Hegelian Dialectic, in which thesis and antithesis clash in opposition and produce a new and different thesis. True dialogue does not work that way…
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Meditations
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Pour the Foundation, and Keep It Liquid Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony…
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Though I hated the compulsory study of Latin while in school, some of the language must have rubbed off, because I like looking up the Latin roots of English words.…
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“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men [and women] to do nothing.” – Edmund Burke When President Trump flew in for a photo-op after…
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Here’s a current cliché I want to drive a stake through: “I have so much on my plate.” I’ve heard it so often in recent years that I’ve taken to…
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A federal prosecutor, Frank Figliuzzi, used a term yesterday that law enforcement employs in referring to the suspects involved in workplace violence, either before or after the fact of murderous…
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Even the name where the evil was methodically planned and executed was carefully chosen. Christchurch. The usual narratives for the New Zealand massacre are woefully inadequate: Islamophobia; immigration scapegoating; the…
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Four months after the misnomer of the “Camp Fire,” the devastation in Paradise was worse than I’d imagined. Like death, nothing prepares you for it. Though only 15 minutes away,…