All those sci-fi novels are beginning to come true – the world ruled by corporations, senators who speak out against those “mutants”, fascist dictators controlling the population by manufactured fear and inexplicable popularity, and the ubiquitous surveillance of big brother.
And now, to put an exclaimation point on this trend, comes this headline from the BBC:
I know that a lot of liberals are very happy about today’s Supreme Court decision banning executions of under-18s. Now, I am not a fan of the death penalty, for two simple reasons: first, I don’t think that [more...]
It’s interesting, isn’t it, how Bob Hope (who turns 100 today) came to be associated so firmly with the song “Thanks for the Memory” – and in turn, the song took on a meaning unlike it had [more...]
No, I didn’t forget you — well, not too much — I’ve just been embroiled in a new place (embroiled denoting the intensity of the sun here, by the way). I’m still kind of wandering around in [more...]
