Quiz: which is bigger: 50 million or 10 million? Before we answer that, some thoughts on fossil fuels. Lots of talk this week about fossil fuels, zero net emissions, reducing CO2 emissions, cutting oil and gas consumption, etc. But the Biden campaign, taking a page from the once great state of California, wants to force […]

Editor’s Note: The pharmacologic supplements necessary to speed efficient recovery from surgery have added a new dimension to the continuing excitement of the election. Last night, the final Presidential debate was interesting. It was filled with empty promises about big plans that have no details. Call me an idiot, but I felt a tugging of […]

19 October 2020 Editor’s Note: I don’t know how you are handling the coming election. I have been relatively diligent in attempting to follow the twists and turns of the narratives driving both sides of this strange election. The most recent developments, captured in the last two weeks of the normal cycle have been curious. […]

12 October 2020 Editor’s Note: On the Hill today starts the ACB confirmation hearings. It will be interesting, I am sure. Rain here in Virginia, and our three deer were spotted on their knees in the pasture below the house. I am hoping we all get dry, eventually. Then back to ripping down statues and […]

Editor’s Note: We are starting the new week with some thoughts onconstitutional issues. Arrias this morning, Point Loma tomorrow. Notice how COVID has knocked everything else off the charts since last Friday? It almost makes one think…oh, never mind. – Vic Aesop and Government Aesop was born a bit more than 600 years before Christ, […]

Editor’s Note: This is a piece from Arrias on the nature of life, and some of the real and emotional issues that come with it. We are in a transitional place in our society. This is an example of why it is so profound. In it, I discovered I was an Aristotilian. Arrias approaches from […]

Here’s a question: at the next US Olympics Trials will people who were born male, but who identify as female, be allowed to compete as females? There are now people who were born male but who identify as female, who are competing in various female college athletic programs. This is being defended by those who […]

Author’s Note: I have a copy of McGuffy’s Reader – I started going through it the other day (I hadn’t opened it in years and years) and was struck by what I read… – Arrias A Shadow Of Its Former Self: Education Today There’s a wonderful scene in the movie “A Man For All Seasons” […]

43 years ago next month protests started in Iran against the Shah, under the leadership and inspiration of the Ayatollah Khomeini. The demonstrations would lead to the Shah’s fall 16 months later. Iran remains under the control of Khomeini’s hand-picked successor, the Ayatollah Khamenei. One of the memorable mnemonics of that uprising, one that still […]

It’s a “well-known fact” that much of what we have of the great Greek and Roman philosophers, scientists, mathematicians, historians and playwrights came to us via the Islamic civilization. Except it wasn’t really that easy. While some of these great works and great thoughts were translated into modern languages inside the courts of the Sultans, […]