The Day the World Changed

Armchair historians like me spend a lot of time looking at turning points. Moments without which our present…

Education vs. Intelligence: An Experiential Journey

Living Forever

Every so often, I spot another article about extending human lifespans beyond the already advanced level they have achieved in the…

The Case of the Good Intention

“He meant well.”

If I Had A Million Dollars

“I got 99 problems, and money would solve at least 77 of them.”

John Calvinball and Hobbes

Of all the adjustments made to my default settings in the journey from youth into middle age, one of the most…

Old Beef and the Circular Firing Squad: A Tragicomedy in Infinite Acts

Plan B

In the wide world of conventional wisdom, there is plenty of dissonance to go around. Yet one area of contradicting advice has always stymied me…

Nostalgia Uber Alles

Sometimes I feel like Benjamin Button, the fictional plot device who ages backwards, going from old man to infant over the…

Inconvenient Truths

I’m not partial to dichotomies. Us and them, want and need, profit and loss, et cetera. Like my hair, truths grow grayer to…