The Philosopher's Stone

By now, we are all familiar with the ever-shifting rationales advanced by the Bush/Cheney junta for the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Fi...

Today is the first day of summer, and for the twenty-sixth time, all of Paris will come out into the streets this evening to celebrate by ma...

Inasmuch as Susie and I are spending June at our pied-a-terre in the 5th arrondisement in Paris, it occurred to me that I ought to write som...

Last Sunday, Susie and I arrived in Iceland, en route to Paris, for a three day visit with Pall Skulason and Ardur Brigitsdottir. Pall is a ...

Inasmuch as Susie and I shall be going to Paris for four weeks next Saturday to spend time in our pied-a-terre in the 5th arrondissment, I ...

All politics are local, as Tip O'Neill would have said had he been a bit more punctilious about his grammar. Hence, while the nation ha...

In one of the great comic masterpieces of the world of film, Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein , there is a transformative scene, midway th...