Over the weekend, I finally got around to watching Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds, a rather interesting flick about a group of rogue US soldiers who…

Today is a special day for um, well, for me. Today is my official one-year anniversary of my blog, and while I don’t know the…

In 1848, along the American River in California, on John Sutter’s property, nuggets of gold were uncovered, and the United States, not to mention the…

“So what is going on with so and so,” I asked a friend about a mutual friend of ours one day. “Oh, they’re in Europe.…

I’ve watched or attended a fair share of presentations at this point, going back to my wayward days of academia and on up through the…

In 1965, John Lennon wrote a song called Help. It had a cheerful tune, an upbeat…beat, and when the Beatles sang it and then made…