Guns, students and 1968

When it came out that Lee Harvey Oswald killed the President of the United States, in 1963, with an Italian…

Density is our destiny

(This was originally published in The Sun in the spring of 2015, but it seems especially relevant today given the…

Only kidding Gainesville

A lot of folks like to think of Gainesville as being a progressive university community. But, really, we’re a typical…

The art of climate change

Ange can’t sleep.  She tosses and turns and worries. About her daughter Lily’s grim future. About the dead chicks they…

Cross and double cross

Impressive things I saw on my trip to Russia in the summer of 2017. The Kremlin. The Hermitage Young couples…

Graveyard of ‘heroes’

(Wrote this in the summer of 2017 for the Gainesville Sun. Still relevant today.) Stalin’s got a busted nose.  Shattered…

Out out damned blot!

Like Jimmy Stewart’s father in “Mr. Smith Goes To Washington” I always fancied myself a fighter of lost causes. Which…

The spinx and the water

ST. PETERSBURG: This is a city of grand palaces and colorful onion-domed Russian Orthodox churches, of giant mosques and fortresses…