October 2018

Three very effective Halloween costumes.

I loved being their child because it was so pleasant to be with them.
Joyce DeWitt Thompson.

Joyce, sister to Mom, was present at my birth in 1945. Until today she was the living person I have known longest.

But, trade wars and information wars are likely to escalate, rendering Thucydides prescient in ways he could not have anticipated.

Left lost everything. State legislatures. House. Senate. Presidency. Supreme Court. They feel morally right in their progressive beliefs.. So any way to get back to power they feel justified in using...even if extra constitutional.

It's going to get worse.

Free nature of our culture makes us uniquely vulnerable to cyber attacks.

I love the reading... but, I don't seem to have the discipline to stick with any one book from beginning to end sans interrupting the process by starting another book... or another... or another.

Purple Mountain Majesty

Via this well performed OSF debut theatrical offering, Lauren Gunderson has shed light on an important segment of our cultural history.

Suicide as a response to unrequited love? Doesn't make sense.

LLL proposition should be considered by today's men as well in view of the cultural legitimization of extortion against unwitting men by widespread, deceiving Delilahs.

He's (Big Data) is baaaaaak! (from 9 month stint in Afghanistan)

Cultural impact of Guernica? Yes... considerable. But, is it art?

1492

Oh SOLE oh mee oh.

El Greco. "El Expolio de Cristo." Sacristy.
Painted on site between 1583 and 1584. Church cut El Greco fee in half because of three "errors:"