One Ring to Rule Them All, Part First Ayn Rand identified and described them in 1964, as both a condition and a threat. If you have a shelf of select references, her book of essays from 1971, Return of the…
Groupies, The Cosby Edition
(I originally posted the original in January, 2016. in part because I go back with Bill Cosby to the early 60s, when he putting out LP’s, which was about the same time I became acquainted with Groupies, when the Beatles…
To Pause and Reflect, The Fourth of July
As I’ve noted before I was born and raised in a company town. Coal mining. And every July 4th the mines shut down and the town gathered at our school football stadium, where half the field was lined with stands…



