Richard's Pretension

Richard Bellush Jr. 1952-2024 May this blog honor your memory.  To all who have been reading- thank you

We are often exhorted to challenge ourselves – to seek new heights. That is all well and good for some single facet (or handful of facets) o...

The discount bookseller Hamilton is one of my go-to sites for perusing titles for possible purchase. More often than not I’ll toss something...

Numerous articles in news and commentary sites lately have reported the difficulties Millennials and Zoomers are facing in their attempts to...

It is not uncommon for friends on Facebook or other social media to post links to music videos for the sake of nostalgia, or because the art...

It is cold outside. In NJ in late January that is no surprise, but it is cold outside… and snowing. As a kid I rather liked living in a regi...

Simplified, the first two laws of thermodynamics are 1) you can’t win and 2) you can’t break even. Said Stephen Hawking in A Brief History o...