This was back when I still believed going to meetings, secret or otherwise, could change the world: at one such meeting, I once offered up...

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit sui...

[Part one can be found here ] Me (Left), Dad, and my older brother. Dad was my first hero. The best and most important lesson I have ...

First of all, Fellow Workers of the World, let me wish you a happy May Day! For  those of you who may be unaware, May 1st is when people aro...

Up on Cripple Creek she sends me If I spring a leak she mends me I don't have to speak, she defends me A drunkard's dream if I ever ...

I rolled out of bed this morning to get some work done before the Cincinnati Bengals play their first regular season game against the Cleve...

Professor Wilhelm Gibbleflugen (1849-1920?) was an obscure German Historian who lived during the later part of the 19 th and early part of ...

[ Dedicated to Chuck Jones and Michael Maltese ] S o I’m thinking about this quote from Thomas Carlyle , a 19th Century British intellectual...

S ince I had the cash, I went against my better judgment and decided to pay rent. The next day I woke up in the late afternoon and walked up...