The anniversary may have escaped many of us, but 2022 is the year in which the film, Soylent Green is set.  The story depicts a time when human activity has so depleted natural resources, humans can no longer grow crops to sustain themselves.  The living survive by eating the dead.�

Everyone knows about the split between left-wing Democrats in Congress and moderates.  The left wants to redistribute wealth by raising taxes on the rich. Moderates who come from politically divided districts want to move more slowly.  Some, like Senator Joe Manchin, openly worry th

While Russia persists in its ambitions for world dominance, I wonder if Putin notices technology is inventing other realities. First, there was the worldwide net. Next came virtual reality. Now there is the metaverse.   According to Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, the metaverse

Who reads this blog? This May will begin “Write Away’s” twelfth year, so I’m curious about its audience.  Some subscribers have been with me almost the full time.  The site has never gone viral but its readers seem to be loyal. Few have unsubscribed while visitor numbers gro

Someone on my Facebook page replied to one of my blogs about atheism. He said because the world exists, someone had to have made it, which means there is a god. I replied if cause and effect governed the universe that would be true. But quantum theory challenges cause and effect as a

Who doesn’t love Michael J. Fox the scallywag actor from Back to the Future?  As most of us know, he’s fighting a losing battle with Parkinson’s disease and gave up acting last year because the illness now impairs his speech.  Even so, he remains active, writing books whil

A columnist wrote recently that anti-vaxxers who fall victim to the Covid virus shouldn’t be admitted to hospitals. Facing death, he said, was too late to embrace medical science.  His statement contains an “either/or” proposition. Either a person takes the vaccine or forgoes t

  Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If” lists the attributes of a rational human being. Paramount is to keep your head when all about you are losing theirs…  That’s a tall order these days.  Robert Reich, famed economist and liberal commentator, lost his head recently. Furious

Many fairytales are quest stories in which the hero must accomplish a task before he wins the princess’s hand. The Twelve Dancing Princesses is my favorite.  Joe Manchin sent his Democratic colleagues on a quest to gain bi-partisan support for two voting rights bills he support

The article by Jaques Berlinerblau asked the question, ”Is there such a thing as a non-secular atheist?” I blinked.  Do atheists come in flavors now? He went on to explain non-secular atheists are those who “embraced science as an alternative to faith” I blinked again. How ca