In 1569, Gerardus Mercator developed a world map that is still in use today. My earliest recollection of a world map is a Mercator projection, and it still is the first thing that pops into mind now. It is the map that makes the most sense to one looking at a map, simply because of…
We start out life ignorant and foolish, progressing to a point where we know everything with great certainty. We eventually learn to acknowledge our ignorance and, no longer victimized by foolishness, start learning something useful. I was a victim of my own foolishness for years. I still may be. Others will have to decide as…
Narrative seems to be the word of the week. Everyone has one. Everyone is promoting one. The term “Talking Points” has become passé. Now, everyone has abandoned their talking points in favor of a narrative. I think I’ll get me a narrative, too. I’d prefer a well established, reputable one, perhaps one formulated by a…
I was perusing the news on-line when an article directed me to the fact that Bergen County, New Jersey, the heaviest populated New Jersey county which sits right across from Manhattan where the Chris Christie manipulated George Washington Bridge lands is the only county in New Jersey that still has a Sunday Blue Law. While…
There was a story on our local television station about a neighboring county Sheriff Department SWAT team being put into action. The reporter struggled to make the story a story. Let me see if I can help, as there was less to the story than met the eye. Of course, I was not there, and…
I try not to write too much about current, ephemeral events, choosing rather to write about the human condition, which hardly ever changes. Sometimes current events illustrate the unchanging human condition, so I suppose when these overlap, I must indulge myself. It is not surprising that Justin Bieber is going bad. I don’t wish him…
Pandemonium, the high capital Of Satan and his peers John Milton, Paradise Lost Milton is credited with the first use of the word pandemonium. He may have even invented it. It is a wonderful word, full of musical lilt even if it is pregnant with a wicked recklessness. We don’t expect a serene tranquility in…
Both are controversial subjects in these perilous times we live in. We are being destroyed by climate change, which will eventually get us if our bad diets don’t get us first. We should beware. I am not a denier of climate change, nor even a denier of man-made global warming, though I admit to being…
When public school education is finally dead, will we still need a Department of Education? Will the Department of Justice appoint a special prosecutor to go after those who killed it? Thanks to the January 8, 2014, “Dear Colleague” letter, you may as well kiss public school education goodbye…it will have been killed from an…
Do not mistake the voice of a single London alehouse as the voice of the kingdom. Jonathan Swift Who? Me? Would I do that? Certainly the alehouse I do all my business in, the one that has all my friends, the one I choose because those in it are the most like me, those with…
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