August 14, 2023

'The Royal Scam' revisited

Steely Dan's 1976 song "The Royal Scam" (from the album of the same name) reflects on the plight of Puerto Rican immigrants to New York City during the 1950s and '60s, people who hoped to get a piece of the American dream for t...

July 28, 2022

Ironies of Our Time

The scientific method is a useful tool that modern man has learned to exploit to our collective advantage. Scientism, however, is the view that the material world is all that exists, and that use of the scientific method is the only true way of ...

July 13, 2022

In hospitals, they are still obsessed with masks

My primary role of late has been to assist my elderly mother through any number of medical appointments. In shuffling from one to the next, we sometimes have to remind each other to bring a mask.  We're aware that the masks offer no ...