thoughts on life

Driving down the short, steep grade into the canyon just beyond town, I passed a score of young people with shovels and buckets, obviously returning from trail work. From that…

You know things have come down to it when a mainstream pundit begins her otherwise boilerplate column with: “In the end, which is where we live now…” So is the…

Despite the clear and present danger of the unhinged narcissist Donald J. Trump with his finger on the nuclear button, the crisis is still being played as entertainment in America.

“We appeal as human beings to human beings: Remember your humanity, and forget the rest. If you can do so, the way lies open to a new Paradise; if you…

Let’s tentatively accept the premise that there’s an intrinsic intent in evolution (without implying a deity) to develop brains with the capacity to consciously commune with cosmic mind that infuses…

The pointless search for a motive for the Mandaday Bay sniper drones on in the mainlining media. A pathologically individualistic society needs a pathologically individualistic motive.

I confess, I’ve never read the Bible in its entirety. But this parable about Jesus comes to mind, and reverberates with respect to this culture, and these times.

American progressives refuse to see and call out evil as evil. That moral failure attests to their complicity in the darkness that has enveloped this country.