Monthly Archives: November 2013

TWO MEN SET OUT on a tandem bike and pedal down a road; call them Ed & Ned, for short, Ed at the head and Ned, puny little fart, bringing up the rear. Good thing Ed is young and strong … Continue reading →

MADNESS: Isn’t the situation (as Sartre operationally defined the term) — isn’t the situation rather more than a little mad? A fair, an eminently fair question. The worst as well as the best lack all conviction and the sheer intensity … Continue reading →

RELIGIONS: There is indisputably among us humans an impulse that might only be described as religious — an awe inspired by the fact of existence — an oceanic feeling that there is that about existence to be reverenced, and it … Continue reading →

NUMBERS AGAIN: To pay back a trillion-dollar debt we had taken on and agreed to pay back at a rate of a dollar a second would take 32,000 years. One hears, however, that we, the people who make up the … Continue reading →