12 October 2019 Out of the Dark Continent: Chapter 2 "Our familiarity with the larger domestic animals tends, I think, to mislead us: we see no great destruction befalling them, and we forget that thousands are slaughtered annually for food, and that in a state of Nature an equal amount would have somehow to be disposed of."
4 October 2019 Out of the Dark Continent: Chapter 1 I know it in my heart that we shall never again exclaim with Kurtz or any of humanity those dreaded words: "The horror, the horror!" ...for to such an end we have labored."
24 September 2019 Out of the Dark Continent It was 1995, the year after masses of people assembled to kill one another in the darkest jungles of the most misunderstood Continent ...
15 September 2019 Roundup Saturday - Lies about Trump + Deutsche Bank, Big Brexit News, Black on Black on Black Carbon Nanotubes, and Bernie Bumps His Head Again! The return of Roundup Saturday (one day late) after a long hiatus has the US-China trade war, US political maneuvers, Big Tech news, and boxing speed bags...
9 September 2019 Listen Up! A Public Service Announcement "In high school, we used to choke each other out...and then the cheerleaders wanted to get choked out..." "Where did you go to school!?"
11 August 2019 ALERT: Flee the Goolag The Google cannot help itself: it has ignored its own former motto of "Don't Be Evil", and mistaken "untrustworthy interference" for "public good". Abandon it in toto.
21 July 2019 Seneca and Timothy on the Nature of True Virtue Monologue given on July 7th to the esteemed members of the Positive Perspectives Book Club.
10 July 2019 Reconstruction: Chapter 9 Vince slept restlessly, but eventually awoke before dawn to observe the meeting of the elders. After a brief morning ritual of cleanliness, Vince left his abode and still asleep wife. A figure, just
28 June 2019 Regeneration Host, Vox Veritas, returns from a brief hiatus to explore what he believes to be the central issue plaguing the Western Church today.
18 May 2019 Juvenilia: Nature as a Transcendent Language "To only accept as true that which I incontrovertibly know to be so..."
4 May 2019 7 o'clock The following excerpt is a sample from the work in progress, "The Serpent and the Spear", a novel set in Manhattan in 1959 in the haze of a post-war euphoria, with business booming and not a care in the world.
29 April 2019 The most well-spoken play-by-play ever? Combine an early-morning park patrol with a born narrator for the most compelling, edge-of-your-safari-seat viewing from the waterhole this year…
27 April 2019 The Eternal Masculine "A city arrays itself in space as a visual representation of the sum of the souls living within its walls."
25 April 2019 Finding Faith It is my sincere hope that if you believe faith is a "movement utterly beyond your reach", as Kierkegaard famously stated, that you will find such a movement possible, for all things are
24 April 2019 Reconstruction: Chapter 8 The breeze sung through the shade trees, intentionally isolated from the nearby forest. Vince spoke with another villager in a field bordering the village.“You see, if we put the well here, it