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Even though I am not a British citizen, the passing of Queen Elizabeth yesterday feels like an era is ending. She has been around forever; it felt like she would go on living ’til the end of time. I really don’t follow the British royalty, but her passing did affect me a little. She appeared…

Classified folders. EMPTY classified folders. So where did the documents go? That’s the big mystery du jour. His character tends to drive to unsavory speculations. His lying, his grifting, his love for violence all portends ill intentions. A couple of years ago – maybe almost a decade ago – there was a furor over Hillary…

This champion for a living wage for workers has a serious flaw: there are allegations of abuse and rape. I want to repeat and emphasize that at this time, they are only allegations, but they are pretty serious. He became famous for giving up his million-dollar salary to increase his employees’ salaries to a minimum…

The shootings just keep coming. We had the Buffalo racist based killing about two weeks ago, then we had the Texan school killing maybe last week, and then this week is a bunch of smaller killings: the Tulsa hospital, a cemetery, and a church. These smaller ones may be being reported because we had such…

I think on Wednesday, William Shatner (aka Captain James T. Kirk) blasted off into space for 10 minutes as the oldest man to experience space. Those who grew up watching the Star Trek series as science fiction/space travel fans (probably around the 60’s, maybe early 70’s as syndication run) definitely thought he was the perfect…

“Space of possibility” is a compelling piece of phrasing to describe what is possible for one to creatively connect two disparate concepts. According to Beau Lotto, one can’t connect two concepts lying far apart in space because those two the items are not within our space of possibility. We haven’t lived the experiences to be…