Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If” lists the attributes of a rational human being. Paramount is to keep your head when all about you are losing theirs…  That’s a tall order these days.  Robert Reich, famed economist and liberal commentator, lost his head recently. Furious

The  headline read, “The Milky Way is Probably Full of Dead Civilizations.” Given that the planet is undergoing a pandemic, I read on.  Possibly the article contained a warning that the end was nigh. Apparently not. Astronomer Frank Drake came to his conclusion about dead planet

I sat down to brunch with friends, recently, a long overdue pleasure. As they were friends, they asked how my memoir was progressing. “Oh,” I  replied, the genre isn’t called a memoir anymore.  It’s referred to as “literary nonfiction.” “What’s the difference?” The

Before Donald Trump has been sworn into the presidency, pundits, their past failed prognostications forgotten, are predicting he will be a one-term office holder. (Click)  Meanwhile, Democrats are wringing their hands and emailing to their constituents about their disappointment over

A corporation’s imperative is to make a profit.  That imperative is baked into its DNA in the form a contractual agreement between the stockholder and the company.  A company that fails to strive for profits will, in all likelihood, be sued. As crass as making a profit may sound i