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Mountain Climbing
The latest pursuit of the wealthy Who hasn’t wondered about the great Himalayan peaks, and how...
The Keys To Retirement Success
Stay vigilant and keep motivated I’ve mentioned it in other articles, but it bears repeating —...
The Book of Charlatans:13th Century Middle Eastern Con Games
The Spanish Prisoner, Pig in a Poke, The Long Con, the Short Con and Everything In Between…...
Hearing Aids: Do’s and Certainly Don’ts
The more you know… Before we begin this next installment of our ‘Things You Should Know’, we...
The Amazing Life of Ruth Slenczynska
This child prodigy has a new recording, except that now she is 97 years young. Many of us wonder...
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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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AI Comes Clean
Artificial Intelligence rats itself out. Unless you’ve slept through the last few months (and who could blame you if you did), you would know that the pundits are expounding on the vast...
More Deadly than Caste
Three tiers of racist ideology. Bob Gordh In her recent bestseller Caste, Isabel Wilkerson sought to explain the nature of White Supremacist, (or simply racist) ideology in the United States. I...
Must Art Be Moral?
Can a scoundrel can make great art? The morality of a work of art is one of the oldest and most widely debated concepts in the art community today. The question is must we respect the artist as...
How Schools Can Smother Education
It’s time to reset our priorities. Bill Wood Let’s follow up a bit on the issue of imagination and how children develop through thinking about things they’ve never seen or...
Is Imagination Necessary Today?
Yes, and we can help our children develop that skill. By Bill Wood I had a long lunchtime conversation with a young mother today about her child’s imagination; about her daughter’s...
She’s Baaaack!
Bugatti has stepped it up, but faces new competition Yes, she is back. We are talking about the Bugatti Chiron. Just when you thought you had heard the last of this 3 million dollar beauty, Bugatti...
Touring Southern Normandy
Exploring France’s medieval heritage. In two earlier articles we outlined tours of Upper Normandy (Haute Normandie), around the vicinity of its regional capital, Rouen. Now we move on to Lower...
The City from Nowhere
Half a century building a city while living in a tent. Although I left the friendly confines of NYC where I was born and raised, I still look forward to the Sunday NY Times as a wonderful weekend...
Robots…
Can’t live with ‘em, can’t run away from ‘em Recently while doing nothing, which I do quite well, I was startled by a mechanical noise coming from my bedroom. Trusty broom in hand I ventured forth...
The Black Tom Munitions Explosions
The terrorist attack no one remembers There are moments in history that forever live in the culture. Likewise, there are those moments regardless of their immediate significance that dissolve quickly...
