Richard's Pretension

2019, which arrives tomorrow, looks like an unreal date to me, as has every year since 2000. I grew up when “the 21 st century” meant th...

In my younger days articles in newspapers and magazines regularly appeared in December remarking about the high rate of murders and suicide...

A rainy weekend left time to munch on bookshelf fodder, both morsels of which had curious origin stories. My reasons for picking them are ...

December is a rather busy month for most of us, but there still might be days or evenings when we have time to unwind and the notion of pi...

In an October 31 post below regarding the first season of The Adventures of Superman , I repeated the oft-mentioned observation that super...

For reasons I can’t explain there is a small pleasantness to numbers in which the digits are the same, as when the odometer of a car tur...

The first Kurt Vonnegut story I ever read was Cat’s Cradle, a quirky apocalyptic novel published in 1963. I picked it off a drugstore pap...