Richard's Pretension

Everyone is capable of enjoying cruelty, and none more dangerously so than moralists, idealists, and ideologues who deny they do, for they ...

Humans think of themselves – quite rightly – as predators. I’m referring at the moment to the food chain, not to other uses of the term. Bu...

According to forecasts the cold weather, after doing much hard work locally for the past month, will take the next week off. At this writin...

I saw 2018 arrive in my favorite place and state: at home, warm, and dry – dry in beverage sense. The hangover cures that peppered newspape...

The winter storm that rolled over much of the East Coast this week merely glanced my inland NJ location on its way from battering the South...

We are told that the onset of the new year is the time for fresh starts and looking forward. Given the nature of time (or at least the huma...

I am not a clothes horse and never have been. This is unlike my dad who enjoyed being a natty dresser. As a builder he wore plaid flannel a...