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...
Integrated Wisdom
Eclectic is the best word to describe Integrated Wisdom. Our focus in this section is on ideas, and we cut across an unlimited range of topics — from smoking cigars, to cross-dressing, to problems with education, to name just a few. These articles are interesting and entertaining, but also informative and, we hope, provocative. They will get you thinking, sometimes on stuff you never bothered to think about before.
Obits
Do not die until you read this. The world has changed, is changing, and will continue to change for a good long time. These changes are neither good nor bad. They simply “are”, we all have very...
Contextualizing the Undefinable
A problem that should be easy to solve. We live in a new world. A world where everyday we say, “That’s amazing, that’s unbelievable, that can’t be true”… and yet it is. This is a world which...
Spandex, The Yankees, and a 13 Billion Year Old Window
Things that I obsess about Like a great many people in my demographic I am interested in a multitude of captivating topics. How are my NY Yankees doing, Why do the Rolling Stones still...
Looking Back on a Sordid History Lesson
History as it should be is a living thing. It describes the character and the institutions of one culture, usually against that of another culture, each struggling to obtain its own desires. When we...
Is it True that Covid-19 only Affects those Who Smile?
Football, Politics and the Hard Choices Ahead Most of us have a side thing going. Whether we collect hubcaps, write graffiti, or simply waste away in the world of televised professional sports, we...
Many Uses for a Good Barrel
Dropping over Niagara Falls might not be one of them We have all heard it said “it’s as easy as apple pie”, or “as easy as rolling down a hill in a barrel”. Maybe it’s not so easy to make an apple...
What’s Really Driving Votes in 2021?
It’s not left or right thinking. In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that America’s public schools needed to be desegregated ”with all deliberate speed.” Two years later in 1956 some...
What’s Sexy in the 21th Century?
Our tastes are evolving. I ate lunch alone this afternoon and took the time to read the latest copy of a supermarket tell-all magazine I found under the bench I was using as my dining room. In it...
UFOs…Are They Out There?
Or are they already here…many scientists conclude it’s the latter! Unidentified Flying Objects. For many years it was the domain of kooks, conspiracy fanatics and just plain whackos. These devotees...