Victor Kiam was right

Last night was interesting all around — literally. I went up to the top of the hill I live on, Communications Hill, so named because it has at its summit a large and somewhat attractive communications tower with  [more...]

I really can’t figure out the point of dating anymore. It seems, quite simply, to be an exercise in whittling away the ego and leaving the participants — or, at least, one of them — diminished. Take  [more...]

Here we are, sixty years later — the only nation to have ever used nuclear weapons. We still have them to this day, and expend a lot of energy trying to keep others from having them, using them as an excuse to  [more...]