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…

My friend Jilly Manty just posted a video that has me hot and bothered. It’s about a seven-year-old whose parents got her plastic surgery because…

A few days ago, I watched The Road, based on the book of the same name by Cormac McCarthy. It is a dark, dark film…