Original poetry, essays, and cultural reflections.
Not long ago Mark Zuckerberg described Facebook as the new church, an institution that will replace traditional churches as a source of community and support. This is a somewhat troubling assertion. First, considering churches to be relics of the past…
With the world awash in bad news, I was delighted to learn that science has just proclaimed cheese to be good for you. For years science insisted that cheese clogged your arteries and would kill you in five to 75…
Everyone knows our system of justice is based on the adversary system, in which two opposing advocates plead their case before an impartial judge. The advocates pull all the stops, within established ethical boundaries, to win their case. Out of…
I admire people who would rather do good than feel good. Some such people become saints. Saint Teresa of Calcutta was an activist par excellence. She felt compassion for the poorest of the poor and weakest of the weak —…
For me, the last straw came in 1996, when Baltimore Oriole star Roberto Alomar spat in the face of the home plate umpire after a called third strike. Rumors of drug abuse, the infamous player strike of 1994, and the…