The Well Run Dry

As part of my efforts to satisfy my monthly craving for foreign (especially non-Western) fiction, I was scouring the Internet several weeks ...

(My title being a nod to the poetry and prose of a British guy who has been pushing up daisies for the last 400 years or so...) When I shop ...

As I think about this present time, I am reminded of special days which I have grown to dislike over the years.  One of those special days i...

There.  I said it.  But why did it need to be said? Many people have written about the campaign of Donald Trump that his campaign is entir...

  Image taken from The Dreadful Story of Pauline and the Matches, Heinrich Hoffman, 1858. (I offer my apologies in advance to Warren Z...

Among the animals there are natural-born predators - animals who are specifically designed to live by eating other animals.  They are incap...

Over the last few weeks, I have been describing how the machinery of looting built by the U.S. and Europe has worked to enrich Europe and Am...

8-22-2023: I have decided to pull this post.  When I wrote it back in 2015, I was still under the influence of information sources which wer...