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Considering the extraordinary volume of mail that the post office handles each day it is nothing short of a miracle that most of it gets...

A recent article in the press cited a decision by the newly seated Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service to discontinue free tax...

In my desperate search for a topic this week I hit upon a subject which has bedeviled me for years even as it intrigues me no end. The...

A small gathering the other day with people from my past stirred a number of thoughts and emotions. If we are fortunate we may meet a...

Perhaps at some point in your education or since you may have run across the word--and the meaning behind it. Potlach, for those have...

A popular but completely false parable suggests that a frog placed in a pot of warm water that is slowly raised to the boiling point will...

In recent weeks, my thoughts have frequently turned toward a question that is neither political nor partisan but lies at the heart of...

In the event you are unfamiliar with the term, cosplay, a contraction of costume and play acting, is typically a benign form of grown up...

Students of humanity have observed a pattern that at least as far back as recorded history repeats itself unerringly even to the present...

Not very long ago I wrote a post on consciousness. Admittedly it is a subject about which there are an extraordinary number of theories...

I awakened last night to the sounds of what seemed to be a gentle spring rainstorm, one we badly needed. The morning revealed quite a...

If you have lived more than 15 minutes in this world you have undoubtedly learned this life lesson: the reward for giving up what you...

Extreme partisanship and ideological divides are nothing new in American politics, but at least in my lifetime, cultish worship of...

The other day was a difficult one. I attended a funeral, an occasion which in my advancing years happens with far too much frequency. ...

A friend of mine has a sign in her kitchen that says she suffers from CDO--Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, but the letters are in the...

Perhaps that phrase is something you recall. If not, it is part of a poem written by the Scottish poet, Robert Burns asking the Good...

I've written before about my misgivings concerning AI--specifically, generalized AI based on large language models (LLMs). Among my many...

In any given week I scarcely know what I will write about; all too often I rely on serendipity to lead the way. So it was this week. I...

Watching events unfold these past few weeks reminded me of a poster I saw back in the late eighties. It featured a large picture of the...

I recently finished the first of a trilogy by Chinese author, Cixin Liu, The Three Body Problem. Even if you are not a fan of so-called...