Hamm: “What time is it”? Clov: “The same as usual.” Samuel Beckett, Endgame Credo quia absurdum, said the ancient philosopher. “I believe because it is absurd.”[1]...
“For by wise counsel thou shall make thy war….”-Proverbs, 24/6 Understanding the Present Moment Incoming US President Joseph Biden faces both direct and indirect threats of...
After enduring four years of a soiled and dissembling presidency, US voters are entitled to raise a once inconceivable question. Before voting in the 2024 presidential...
“One must become accustomed to living on mountains, to seeing the wretched ephemeral chatter of politics and national egotism beneath one.”-Friedrich Nietzsche, Zarathustra During the dissembling...
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”-W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming From the start of his sordid presidency, Donald J....
“The air tonight is as heavy as the sum of human sorrows.”-Albert Camus, Caligula It is no longer just hyperbole. Still armed with nuclear weapons, a...
“It ain’t over till it’s over,” we learn from New York Yankee great Yogi Berra.[1] Now that Donald J. Trump has been defeated at the polls...
“I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”-T S Eliot, The Waste Land Despite the noise and aggressive self-promotion, Trump administration diplomacy in the...
“In the end, we are creatures of our own making.”-Goethe, Faust From the start of the current worldwide “plague,” US President Donald J. Trump has claimed...
“In a surrealist year….some cool clown pressed an inedible mushroom button, and an inaudible Sunday bomb fell down, catching the president at his prayers on the...