Richard's Pretension

Social comparisons based on personal recollections are always suspect. If we go through a personal rough patch in some period of our lives,...

A casual friend, who never has demonstrated any penchant for science fiction,  last night   expressed  to me   his lack of interest in a lo...

When I was little, like most kids I loved monster movies. Monster movies are a subset of horror movies, and pundits often attribute th...

Few of us share a box with Schrödinger’s cat and fewer of us particularly want to do so, so we sometimes must accept exclusionary condition...

I just closed the Ticketmaster site, and accordingly am somewhat poorer, but (one hopes) only financially. Another revival prompted me to p...

Six decades ago, John von Neumann in a conversation with fellow mathematician Stanisław Marcin Ulam commented that technology was leading t...

In the most exciting home rink bout of the season to date, the Morristown-based NJRD ( New Jersey Roller Derby ) All Stars faced the visi...