Your Big Bad Wolf
Once upon a time I was skeptical — no, it was worse than that. I was a bit of a scoffer for those who had phobias of some kind. Fear of flying was one I could not understand, because flying is (statistically) one of the safest ways to travel. The Department of Transportation keeps track […]
Be afraid. Be very afraid. (Not.)
Halloween is near, and some of you clever readers may think this is about that. Smart, but no. Of course Halloween is associated with being afraid. Movies have made it that way, and before that books. The name itself is an 18th century contraction of All Hallow Even, which is the evening before All Hallow […]
Evil will lose.
Of all the horrific acts of evil that made the news this past week, the invasion of Israel wins. Not because Hamas won any kind of real victory. If they won on the ground at all it was a pyrrhic victory — the kind in which the cost is greater than the win. They did […]
