- Dec 11, 2022
A Repentant Contrarian
A dear friend used to say I was a contrarian. I prefer to think of myself as an iconoclast, but after reading my last few blog posts, I...
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- Dec 5, 2022
A Socialist Atheist XMas
When I was a kid, I stayed up all night on Christmas Eve. I’m sure I probably dozed intermittently, but that’s not how I remember it. I...
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- Nov 27, 2022
Church of the World Cup
I am a third-generation citizen of Red Sox Nation. My grandfather went to one of the World Series Games at Fenway Park in 1946. My father...
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- Nov 13, 2022
Sea of Tranquility
I am still in the afterglow of Emily St. John Mandel’s Sea of Tranquility. Like her 2015 bestseller Station Eleven, it is a tour de force...
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- Nov 7, 2022
The News: Read it and Weep
We’re still in the Halloween hangover, and my media stream and TV selections are filled with books and movies in that genre, some of...
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- Oct 31, 2022
Faith is the Problem
How do you solve this moral dilemma? · Religion A says that women must have their clitorises removed shortly after birth. This was...
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- Oct 24, 2022
Little Green People
I write science fiction, so I enjoy UFO stories as much as—maybe more than—the next person. Disclaimer: Although I believe that aliens...
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