Poetry Wednesday: Alan Ginsberg Inspired by Jack Kerouac.

It will come as no surprise to some that Allen Ginsberg is probably my favorite poet. I first became familiar with Allen Ginsberg through the writings of Jack Kerouac, his friend and sometime peripatetic traveling partner. If Ginsberg is my favorite...

Carly Fiorina and the Myth of Her Qualifications

The main credentials of the two leading Republican Presidential hopefuls at this point is their experience as CEO's of large corporate entities. The leader is of course Donald Trump, who is a ridiculous figure, adored by many for his purported...

Let Us Pray: The Blasphemy of Religious Opportunists

All around America we see people extraneously praying for things one would think would be too trivial for the attention of a God who has created this amazingly, infinite Universe. We see football players scoring touchdowns and praising the Lord....

Songs for Saturday: Unrequited Love

unrequited = (Of Love, Affection, etc.) not reciprocated or returned. I would guess that almost all of us have experienced an unrequited emotion at one time or another in our lives. It can be devastating, painful, embarrassing and/or humiliating. It...

The Austerity Conspiracy and the Rape of Greece

Last Sunday the people of Greece gave a winning 34% of their vote to Greek Prime Minister Tsipras. Mr. Tsipras was elected originally as Greek Prime Minister because he opposed his country's treatment at the hands of the European Union,...

The Age of Enlightenment, Religious Cowardice and Religious Ignorance

“The Age of Enlightenment (or simply the Enlightenment, or Age of Reason) is an era from the 1650s to the 1780s in which cultural and intellectual forces in Western Europe emphasized reason, analysis, and individualism rather than traditional lines of...