Old Age Sticks

Human migration has become my obsession, I guess. It is, I think, basically unstoppable, at least in the long term. Walls, incarcerations, d...

Rant alert!! The anti-immigrant campaign is only spuriously about “law-enforcement.” In reality, ICE is engaged in what amounts to a brutal ...

The entirety of humanity—worldwide—seems convulsed with right-wing, reactionary, anti-rational, anti-scientific sentiment. Dostoyevsky’s Gra...

Why do journalists continue to feign “surprise” at Trump’s frantic bullshit—his flip-flopping, fantasizing and falsifying? Surely, by now, a...

In today’s American English, the adjective “faux” does not actually mean “false.” Rather it denotes something that is “almost” true—and whic...

“Now, if I don't get elected, it's gonna be a bloodbath for the whole ... that's gonna be the least of it, it's gonna be a b...

As I was reading about the history of the Olympic Games, I came upon this picture of an athlete from ancient Greece. Now, I remembered that ...