Dad’s Coming 1873. See the Online Catalog of the Exhibit.
Audio Tour of Right & Left
A Lady who Pratices what she Preaches
The other day I strolled in the gothic quarter of Barcelona and came by a tattoo shop. I was very impressed with the lady who stood behind the counter. She was the best advertisement that anyone could have thought of for this kind of establishment. I wondered: Did mom and dad already have a 
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[Read More] Wedding Crashers
If my eyes did not fool me, Senator John McCain made a very brief cameo appearance in this average comedy that in the end takes a big bow in front of the institution of marriage. But there is a lot of loose behavior and fowl language (sometimes funny) that will not please the “moral” coalition 
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[Read More] Lincoln’s Great Drepression
Surprisingly, the article on Lincoln’s state of mind in this month’s Atlantic Monthly turned out to be very interesting. Making valid inferences after the fact about what propelled a person to act in a particular way is difficult, to put it mildly. With hindsight everyone has perfect vision. Joshua Wolf Shenk’s Lincoln’s Great Depression does 
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[Read More] Donate to the Red Cross for Hurricane Relief
Donating money to the Red Cross over the internet with a credit card takes less than five minutes.
Click on the graphic to get to the Red Cross donating page.
Christianity and the Catholic Church at the End of the Millennium
In 1996 Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, who recently became Pope Bednedict XVI, sat down with Peter Seewald, a German journalist who had left the catholic church, for a long conservation that was published as a book in the following year. Salt of the Earth: Christianity and the Catholic Church at the End of the Millennium 
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[Read More] Getting Addicted to “24”
A couple of weeks ago a friend raved about the TV show 24, which will start its fifth season in January. I rented the first three episodes of the first season from Blockbuster. The entire season takes place in 24 hours. Before I knew it, I had watched the entire season in a few days. 
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[Read More] A Different Portrait of America
Accumulating stuff takes time. After reading this unusal portrait of America, I had one question: How much time do people actually spend shopping? Until the end of my teenage years, I used to enjoy bargain hunting immensely and spent endless hours in pursuit of gadget that fell within my budget. I hate shopping now and [Read More]
Love and Passion Reconsidered
In college I had the privilege of taking a yearlong reading and writing course that picked a new theme every quarter. In the first term we read books and wrote essays on the idea of love going back all the way to Plato’s Symposium. Although I was fully able to articlulate Plato’s view of love, 
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[Read More] America’s “Deep Throat” in Action
What a man! Taking down a president is no small job even in a democracy. Mark Felt, then working in Salt Lake City, posed in this 1958 photo.
