From Astronomy magazine April 2021: “…sometimes individual planets gain velocity and are flung far out into space, escaping their galactic disks.” Page 5 and pages 18-23. We know of the existence of planetary rogues as well as rogue asteroids, comets, and even stars....

It’s time for American Democracy to take the next step, and the next step is away from wealth for wealth’s sake and towards rewarding people with motivation and old-fashioned determination to succeed. Collectively we have the money to make this step. What I object to...

Bigot In Merriam-Webster: a person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices especially: one who regards or treats the members of a group (such as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance. In this post, I propose...

Washington, Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, and Lincoln on Mt. Rushmore. A sculptor named Borglum chose the four because he thought they led the country during important times and made decisions that shaped the future of the country. I would not disagree with any of those...

When the Supreme Court sent up a trial balloon as to the future of Roe V. Wade six weeks ago, I posted on the topic of Abortion. Now that the current nine have overturned the nine of five decades ago, it is time for me to repeat some of what I wrote and expand...

James Weldon Johnson (June 17, 1871 – June 26, 1938) had a birthday last Friday, which is still celebrated posthumously every year. After receiving a degree from Atlanta University, Johnson returned home to Jacksonville, Florida in 1894 and became the principal of...

The current spate of anti-intellectualism is only a very specific form of a much broader and more pernicious syndrome, anti-high mindedness, the fallacious idea that applying humanitarian ideals and morality is a mistake. The problem is not new! Think of all the old...

I’ll start with a disclaimer! I am not a Trump hater! It is none of his policy decisions that disqualifies him from the Presidency. It’s his technique! Politics is not roller derby, and the best past presidents didn’t try to ram everything through like a roller derby...

In reference to the proliferation of senseless and brutal mass murders of innocent people many have offered solutions, all have been largely ignored. As usual, the answer is all of the above, or, in this case, all of the below: One very sensible solution is to...

There were over 40,000 traffic fatalities in the United States alone last year. That number will shrink to near zero in the future, because we will no longer be driving ourselves around. We will be passengers in autonomous vehicles. When I write fiction, I often set...