A Veneer
“All our immigration controls have is a veneer of decency." Philippe Legrain author of Them and...
Courage
“We think courage is something we are born with but we are wrong. It’s a tradition we choose to...
Building Bad Better
I saw a video on TikTok of a Republican congressman claiming that the Build Back Better legislation as proposed by the...
A Great Nation
The USA attracts immigrants because, more than most countries, it rewards merit and forgives failure, it attempts to...
Proper Usage
“Use laws that are old but food that is fresh.” Periander of Corinth I found this quote in one of Nassim...
Words Seldom Seen: Eructation
Eructation Noun: A formal way of saying belch or burp. Example: "An eructation from Napoleon would have been...
Sex on Sunday
A Welsh Baptist preacher was asked whether it was permissible to have sex on Sundays. He replied, “Yes, so long as...
Living
"Remember, you do not live in the world, you only pass through it." Leo Tolstoy in A Calendar of...
Happy New Year
This is the second year of Covid. Some good has come of it but it has been mostly bad. It has increased anxiety in...
Haitian Poverty
"The main reason Haitians suffer in poverty is not because they are from Haiti but because they are in...
