The great journalist, satirist and cultural critic, H.L. Mencken, (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956) wrote: “Why then do rational men and women engage in so barbarous and exhausting a vocation (writing) – for there are relatively intelligent and… Read More ›
Humorless oafs can ruin any social outing. Yes, you know the ones – ordering anchovies on a pizza for a group of folks allergic to all forms of life aquatic. What promised to be an epic gabfest of exchanging texts… Read More ›
When I was in my 20’s, in what seems to be a different lifetime ago, I worked in the oil industry. I was what was known as a “Landman”, which involved criss-crossing the Western states, hoping to sign farmers and… Read More ›
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. – Douglas Adams No one likes to be told, well, really anything. It… Read More ›
“I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.” ― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces So many geniuses…so… Read More ›
“Don’t let them ever do this to you.” Those were the pearls of wisdom my 80-year-old mother told me after her second back surgery, just coming off the post surgery drugs and cognitive enough to understand that having another steel… Read More ›
Sitting in my Asylum office, relishing a drizzly, dreary and dank day – the kind of day we rarely get here in the summer in this part of the States, reading an article in “In Defense of Cigarettes”, got me… Read More ›
“Everything I managed to entertain in the way of religious illusion I put into my Requiem, which moreover is dominated from beginning to end by a very human feeling of faith in eternal rest.” ~ Gabriel Fauré Gabriel Fauré composed his… Read More ›
The Appian Way or Via Appia Antica in Rome is one of the most famous ancient roads. It was built in 312 B.C. by Appius Claudius Caecus. In it’s entirety it spanned 350 miles(563kms). The Appian Way stretched from the… Read More ›
“Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of… Read More ›
