“A world of secret passions is perverting the men who make your laws.” — Frank Zappa Part 1 Can imprisonment of people for profit ever…
We had just celebrated the birthday of the Christian Lamb of God—he of the lineage of Abraham—accepted as the Savior in the West, the Near…
Chapter 1 The December 2013 Smithsonian has Ron Rosenbaum’s interview of stage and film director Julie Taymore—she of the glorious staging of The Lion King…
“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.” —Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanac This is a taxonomy of types of secrets and…
Afghanistan. The closing years of the reign of Mohammed Zahir Shah, deposed 17 July, 1973, who lived in exile north of Rome, Italy for 29…
TWO TYPES OF PEOPLE Jesus saith, “Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.” Pilate saith unto him, “Truth? What is truth?” John…
by Arthur Panaro He is a surveyor. His company expected he would need only two months to complete the assignment in the Amazon. But he…
THE MONK’S WALK / Paul Laurence Dunbar In this somber garden closeWhat has come and passed, who knows?What red passion, what white painHaunted this dim…
“The ground is cavernous with the burrows of lizards and crawling forms, with centipedes and fierce formicidae.” Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking ————————— Ants,…