Beam me up, Scotty

I'm still here, this blog hasn't died--merely taken a break. I'm still working hard and keeping up and caring about this world a...

"The first week of December 1933 will go down in history for two repeals, that of Prohibition and that of the legal compulsion for sque...

Does anyone recall learning about the old days and of how people were put on the auction block and bid upon? Part of the process of choosing...

Why do Americans and others in the Western world feel so terrorized? Earlier I watched a news clip in which travelers were asked their thoug...

My solution to the TSA: Bathrobes and fuzzy slippers. I used to work with a lady that would say, "Kill 'em with kindness, kill ...

In 1955 Vladimir Nabokov, a Russian emigre to the United States, published Lolita , a tale of a linguistically and aesthetically talented pe...

I'll be traveling soon and have been studying the TSA site in hopes of passing the security exams I will encounter along the way. And I ...

"There's no doubt that there's a direct relationship between the increase in a state's tax and the increase in illegal traf...

I sit here on one of the last days of fall before the hard frost hits, listening to Hacienda, a San Antonio, TX based band that I saw earlie...

Jaco Van Dormael's Mr. Nobody is like a piece of great literature and needs to be "read" like one. This means that the viewer ...

In the year 2092 Nemo Nobody is 118 years old and the last mortal human. A journalist asks Nemo what life was like back when humans were mor...

I have a personal list of people I intend to meet. Samuel James is on that list. Some people will travel to see the Pyramids of Egypt or the...

"We cannot go back. That's why it's hard to choose. You have to make the right choice. As long as you don't choose, everyth...

That's it, I'm going to Russia. Russia's finance minister, Alexei Kudrin is telling "people to smoke and drink more, explai...

The Jewish Holy day of Rosh Hashanah has passed this week, and although, I am only Jewish by blood and not practice (haven't been for ce...

It's that time of year -- autumn. The birds have quit twittering and the children have stopped playing. The last couple of years I have ...

A few weeks ago Newsweek printed an article entitled "The Creativity Crisis" by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman, which detailed th...