The Painter’s Painter no one remembers Portrait painting is one of the oldest forms of...
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Wild Swimming
A chilling form of rebellion At agnituslife, we feel we are all uber athletes. This is really...
At the Nexus of Creativity and Wackiness
Meet the Kiffness There’s a lot of musical talent out there, but only a minuscule percentage...
Lenny Bruce
The one who started it all There is a fine line between heritage and lineage. Both are important...
Providential Protection for Herschel Walker?
by Bill Wood Taking lying to an art form. You have to wonder if 19th century German chancellor Otto...
Exploring the True World
Articles against the fallacies of travel. Everywhere you turn some sales organization is telling...
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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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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...
Surfing NYC
Hot dogs, baseball, and big waves. Surf City, Jan & Dean Move over Jan & Dean. Hey Beach Boys, if you want to ride the really big waves, take the A Train out to Queens. Forget Waimea Bay, the...
Take your Electric Airplane to Work
Trains, cars and planes…Is there room for all of them in your garage? This is 2021 and electric cars are all the rage. Tesla started the landslide, and now you would be hard pressed to come up with...
The Woman Who Broke Up the Beatles
Yoko Ono before she was Yoko Ono. She is best known as the woman who broke up the Beatles. She is almost as well known as the woman who screeches and screams on John Lennon’s later albums. She...
Reducing Stress Naturally
Using music as therapy. “Music has charms to soothe the savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.” So offered William Congreve in the 17th Century, and he was right, more or less. Not...
Would You Like Your Partner to Change?
That might not be in your partner’s, or your own, self-interests. As the world isn’t perfect, we rarely find a partner who satisfies all of our criteria. They may have certain idiosyncrasies or...
Bowling Balls, Physics and Brooklyn
Technology emerges in the most surprising places. Sometimes that old adage “everything old is new again”, is true and other times not so much. Certainly things are built upon other things, advances...
