• Racism

    Racism is most often and probably correctly thought of as a modern phenomenon. 

  • We are all so Sinful

    If there is one thing I can not stand it is a mealy mouthed clergyman (in that mournful oh so serious and pious voice) telling us we are all so sinful

  • A Meditation on Death

    To have lived a good life is all that matters in the end.

  • To Regret or to Reset

    Regret, while you still have breath, is a wasteful extravagance, a futile and destructive luxury. 

  • Why I do not read the News

    I do not read the news because it is repetitive, dispiriting, boring and irrelevant.

  • A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature’s Deep Design

    Nobel prize winning physicist Frank Wilczek’s book “A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature’s Deep Design” is certainly worth reading.

  • With Hindsight….

    What possible use is hindsight when the past is behind us and unchangeable?

  • Euthanasia

    Every human should have the right to take his or her own life and the means to do so painlessly and swiftly should be made easily and openly available.

  • Hypocrisy

    Are we all hypocrites or is there the odd saintly exception?

  • Catharsis in Writing

    The act of self expression in writing seems to provide relief from strong or long repressed emotions – a catharsis.