The eruption was just the last straw in a series of calamities. The ruins of Pompeii is one of the more fascinating sites in Southern Italy. But we’re not going to discuss the eruption and its...
When is Good Enough Not Really Good Enough?
In search of the perfect brewski. Last year in the United States we consumed 28.2 gallons of beer for every individual over the age of 21. That boils down to about 10 ounces per day and that equals...
The Growth of Genetic Genealogy
DNA testing might give you more than just a genealogy analysis. “60 Minutes” has touched nerves for more than fifty years in America. It did again one night in October. The issue was...
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...
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...
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 challenged. When you get into it with the uninformed, the uneducated, or the just plain dumb, one has...
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...
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...
