Time, Devourer of All Things
One of the least noticed, let alone resisted, oppressions of contemporary life is the ruthless tyranny of time, our clock- police state. Everywhere Big Brother, …
Category: Reflections
Sticking With the Status Quo
On November 8, California suffered a disaster worse than any eight-point earthquake. Voters spurned Governor Schwarzenegger’s attempts to limit the power of the modern liberal …
Bonfire Vivants
My local paper tells me in glaring black headlines that “Violence in France is slowing.” Good news – I read on. I find that this …
Santa Seeks WMD’s
NORTH POLE – In response to Denmark’s announcement in October 2004 that it was exploring the possibility of claiming the North Pole as part of …
Cell Bloc
The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University’s School of Law recently filed a lawsuit on behalf of several civil-rights organizations, claiming that a …
The Cruel Oppression of Prosperity
Like many, I’ve been intrigued by the proliferation of quality wines from the newer growing areas of the world. So when I saw an interesting …
Bohemian Rhapsody
The battle between bourgeois and bohemian was probably the longest-running vaudeville comedy act in Western history, each thwacking the other with rolled-up newspapers for about …
Exit, Frothing
The reports of God’s death, written by Nietzsche, Darwin, Marx, and others in the 19th century, were, in Mark Twain’s immortal phrase, greatly exaggerated. God …
Smoot Point
Jude Wanniski, who recently died, will be remembered as the trumpet of supply-side economics on the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal in the …
The Madness of King Dubya
Sometime around the end of the 19th or the beginning of the 20th century, nations began to have identity crises, like the individuals who compose …