A short while ago, Samantha Elauf won a religious discrimination case against clothier Abercrombie & Fitch.  A Muslim woman, she argued she was denied employment because her religion requires her to wear a headscarf, a look the company felt was contrary to their fashion image. 

A man, while digging in a basement in Calgary, Canada found a fish fossil he thought was unusual, so he sent it off to some experts.  When they reported he’d found evidence of a  60-million-year-old species, he refused to believe it.  As a Creationist, he knew the world was only

I became a stock investor by accident. An acquaintance moved into the CEO position of a small, public company.  As I’d worked with the man on a few projects and knew his banking acumen, I decided to buy a few shares.  When the stock rose appreciably, I sold some and bought into an

I’ve written endlessly about the burden of college tuition for students.  (Blog 6/16/15)   I’ll say it once more.  The cost of higher education is an outrage.  We’re a nation blighting the future of our country by impoverishing our young.  What I hadn’t considered until

Last week, I was sitting quietly in the bistro of my retirement center, munching on a cheese and tomato pizza, when one of the residents breezed in, ordered a ham sandwich and swooped into the chair opposite me at my corner table.  She used to be in show business so she always leaves

A blog I wrote over a year ago was about Craig Mundie’s solution to all the data mining going on in the world.  He advised that the practice was so pervasive, we’d be wise to create rules for how data can be used rather than attempt to prevent its collection. (Blog 4/4/14)   An

It’s a flaw of mine, I know, that I can follow an author’s writing yet know little about him or her.  Only recently, for example, did I learn that Edith Wharton, one American’s great novelists,  was an expatriate.  She lived in France and distinguished herself during World Wa

Recently a group of international women leaders, which included Gloria Steinem, crossed into North Korea in an effort to begin a face to face reconciliation with the women of that country.  (Click)  In doing so, the group was criticized for playing into North Korea’s hands, partic

Recently, a blog reader emailed an article from the Wall Street Journal that got my juices flowing. (Click) Columnist Peggy Noonan was taking some Columbia University students to task for their editorial in the college newspaper, Spectator. (Click)  In sum, the article was a response

“What makes aerial drones so different from manned aircraft is not their efficiency as hunters or killers but their ability to linger.”  So writes William M. Arkin, a former army intelligence analyst.  (“Loitering With Intent,” by William M. Arkin, Harper’s, June 2015 pg.