WE THE SUCCESSORS TO PLATO LEONARDO AND GALILEO
We aspire to be rational, fact driven humans who occasionally submit to emotional pulls on our decision-making process. No. Not even remotely true. We’ve always been emotional beings who […]
BUSTED IN PROVIDENCETOWN
BUSTED IN PROVINCETOWN Octogenarian vice ring smashed by iPhone shutdown error Last night the Provincetown police pounded on our hotel room door. This is never encouraging. Police officers rarely arrive […]
MY IMMIGRANT WIFE CORRECTS MY ENGLISH
The indignity of having your vocabulary upgraded by a foreigner half a century late Humiliation is a nasty sentiment we should leave behind in youth. By my age, dignity ought […]
MERYL STREEP IN PRADA AND MUD
Soon enough you’ll be watching the new Devil Wears Prada sequel. Or at least you should—unless you’ve taken a moral stand against couture, cheekbones, and people who pronounce “cerulean” with authority. It’s […]
REPRODUCE BY SEX VERSUS MULTIPLY BY DIVIDING
“In Praise of Bacteria: No In-Laws, No Funerals, No Fuss” As a homo sapiens human, you doubtless have closed your mind to the advantages of the original, very successful method […]
DEAD SEA SCROLLS A REVELATION FOR YOU?
When I was eight, the papers ran a banner headline: “DEAD SEA SCROLLS FOUND IN CAVE!” At that age, I assumed we had finally located God’s private diary—Volume II: What […]