Living on the Edge
If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space ~ Unidentified United Nations peacekeeper in the Balkans, quoted in John H. F. Shattuck's Freedom on Fire: Human Rights Wars and America's Response I grew up…
If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space ~ Unidentified United Nations peacekeeper in the Balkans, quoted in John H. F. Shattuck's Freedom on Fire: Human Rights Wars and America's Response I grew up…
The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there ~ Bart D. Ehrman Authority is one of the pillars of patriarchy. I recall one of my colleagues…
I was interviewed for the Carol Rosin Show on 31 March 2017. The online radio program is archived below. Robin Westenra wrote his analysis of the recent interaction between Paul Beckwith on Facebook. It was posted here on 31…
My April essay for the Weekly Hubris was posted Friday, 30 March 2017. It can be read here.
I would rather die of passion than of boredom ~ Vincent Van Gogh When asked why we are here, the inimitable American author Kurt Vonnegut frequently quoted his son Mark and also his uncle. The former individual, between stints…
I was interviewed for Margo's Healing Corner on 17 March 2017. The result is embedded below, with my thanks to Margo. I was interviewed by Dougie the Abolitionist on live radio in Atlanta, Georgia on 18 March 2017. The…
Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward ~ Edward Abbey My interpretation of Cactus Ed's line: Must go faster. This is a defining element of every civilization, including the current, industrialized version. Civilizations…