Bugatti has stepped it up, but faces new competition Yes, she is back. We are talking about the...
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Touring Southern Normandy
Exploring France’s medieval heritage. In two earlier articles we outlined tours of Upper...
The City from Nowhere
Half a century building a city while living in a tent. Although I left the friendly confines of NYC...
Robots…
Can’t live with ‘em, can’t run away from ‘em Recently while doing nothing, which I do quite well, I...
The Black Tom Munitions Explosions
The terrorist attack no one remembers There are moments in history that forever live in the culture...
Let’s Break Up the Union
I live in a blue state and I’m all for it. You should avoid arguing with the intellectually...
Podcasts
White Fragility
Understanding racism from the white perspective. Racism in some form or another is unavoidable...
Security or Freedom?
What do Americans really want? American voters often go to the polls claiming that they are unhappy...
Fatal Distractions
Using misinformation to steer us away from our problems. President Trump is running scared. That...
Sports in a Pandemic
The good and the bad of the re-opening Across the leagues, sports are trying to activate. This is...
Fake News
Controlling the narrative to hold onto power Fake news is nothing new. It was used as early as the...
Political Power
The most effective means of guaranteeing your rights. The murder of George Floyd in Minnesota...
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Alice Neel Lowered the Bar…Then Raised it Again
The Painter’s Painter no one remembers Portrait painting is one of the oldest forms of documentation which still exists today. Its subjects range from Royalty to Madmen, from the oldest and the dying...
Wild Swimming
A chilling form of rebellion At agnituslife, we feel we are all uber athletes. This is really another way of saying we are old folks who looking back on our athletic years and remember ourselves as...
At the Nexus of Creativity and Wackiness
Meet the Kiffness There’s a lot of musical talent out there, but only a minuscule percentage, either because of a lack of drive, luck, or resourcefulness, make it big. Most give up the chase...
Lenny Bruce
The one who started it all There is a fine line between heritage and lineage. Both are important, one no more than the other. Lineage is earned, while heritage is given. In both cases we always...
Providential Protection for Herschel Walker?
by Bill Wood Taking lying to an art form. You have to wonder if 19th century German chancellor Otto von Bismarck ever reached across the centuries and met Herschel Walker, the 1982 Heisman Trophy...
Exploring the True World
Articles against the fallacies of travel. Everywhere you turn some sales organization is telling you to travel. Take a ship, or a plane, take an adventure, ride a camel, sleep in a hut in Indonesia...
The Father of the Woman who did This, and That, and other Things too!
A scoundrel’s story…Billionaire Robert Maxwell Most of us, unfortunately, are familiar with the horribly disturbing case of billionaire Jeff Epstein, the company he kept and the multitude of young...
Our Most Dangerous Roads
Driving America for fun and terror I often have the same recurring dream, as many people do, but my dream is a true story that happened to me, and I can not remember the ending in the dream, nor can...
Who Throttles Speech in The Town Hall?
By Bill Wood Dots are appearing on the Internet map, dots you’ll need strong rulers to connect. First the headline that makes one dot. The conservative Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans...
Drifting Apart
And finding your way back. There are lots of reasons why couples might feel disconnected. Sometimes it springs from resentments and disappointments stored up over the course of a relationship. There...
