Walking the trail today, I found myself directly behind, then directly ahead of, then behind, then ahead of (and so on) a woman walking her dog. The dog kept wanting to mark bushes and she kept acquiescing, which made her pace very erratic. Hence the dance. Also, she was talking to someone on her phone […]
In Last and First Men (1930), science fiction writer Olaf Stapledon described a process of evolutionary trial and error played out over billions of years, humanity evolving and devolving, advancing and retreating, drifting planet to planet, galaxy to galaxy like a fragile cloud, the final iteration no more obviously related to 21st century man than 21st century […]
Anyone who’s read Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States with an open mind knows the score, but we do need to be reminded from time to time, particularly those of us who live inside the affluence bubble. (And please note that my concept of affluence includes a 10-year-old car, no cable, a healthcare strategy […]
