Back in ’69, I was a nineteen-year-old hippie living alternately in my car and at my parent’s apartment in Queens. On a chilly autumn night, taking advantage of my parent’s hospitality and in need of warmer clothes, I opened their storage closet, liberated the raunchiest old blanket I could find…

Humans are little more than bipedal lemmings. Rulers of old were regarded as gods-on-earth. They lived secluded in their castles, fed the healthiest foods, were attended by the finest physicians, and, as a result, significantly outlived their subjects. As the cost of medical care exceeds the budget of the average…

Let’s think this through — After the horror of Uvalde last week, the sociopathic governor of Texas declared that the problem in America, the reason for all the gun violence, is one of mental health. I hate to say it, but he’s correct; America is dancing on the ridge of insanity. · In a nation…

A bloodied and weary old man shows how not to write. — Slowly, with ancient muscles straining, bones cracking like broken twigs; he raised his balding head and tired eyes, blue and bloodshot to meet the purity of the horizon, a cloudless, simple blue; then returned his gaze to the worn volume, of faded brown and gold leather, set heavy atop tattered…

D-Day 2022? — I watched in horror as George Bush and his minions executed shock and awe on Baghdad. And I’ve seen mothers scream and tear-streaked fathers holding their dead sons and daughters thanks to our drone strikes in Iraq and Afghanistan. As a nation, we cannot claim the high ground. We, the…

A fist is comprised of individual fingers — Have you ever seen the videos of Cape Buffalos attacking lions? The lions single out an isolated calf or elder buffalo and strategically attack. The victim screams, and the entire herd rushes in, chasing off the preditors, often permanently reducing the number of aggressors. Why can’t we, the American people…