Yes of course it is damn scary when once again, at a time as supposedly new Hitlers are arising, it is the media again who come into focus as a social problem. Or is it that the Hitlers arise as a…

I have written this for young children and others scared the world is about to blow up. If you read the news announcements today, you can understand why they seem to say this. Take them literally and…

America is a car culture. The saying goes, in Europe 100 miles is a long distance whereas in America 100 years is a long time. With a heritage of continental exploration and frontier expansion, it is…

Jeffery Beall was keeper of a controversial list of predatory publishers that has been shut down. A big problem with this list is it was academically classist and biased towards journals in non-…

Ah the beauty, from victory to victory for over a year now – is it not wonderful to be alive today? For those few of us who have for years predicted the current affairs, 2016 was so refreshing also…

Our nation once again celebrates its unique capacity to transfer leadership with grace and dignity.  The joyousness of the occasion, however, quickly fades into solemnity as citizens and…

You will read in many places of Gene Cernan as the last man on the moon. He certainly was that. To me and to all of us in the Village of Bellwood Illinois he was a home town hero. Bellwood is a…

As some of you may know, I've become deeply concerned, and indeed appalled by the large numbers of fake doomsday news stories, because I am so often contacted by people who get very scared and…

Psst!  Wanna Buy Some Truth? In case anyone has missed my many articles on the topic of global warming-induced climate change: I am totally convinced that humans have been causing global warming…

Not long ago, I read an article Apocalypse now? Nuclear proliferation is the least of our worries, to which the sub-editor helpfully added the heading soon, a massive solar flare will bring the world…