Some will sell their dreams for small desires

“Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.” A. Schopenhauer “The void exists for as long as you are not falling into...

We kill our grandchildren even before they are born

“The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”George Carlin Maybe the title sounds provocative or melodramatic to you. It is something I tend to do....

A brief history of homosexuality

No matter how far-out it strikes you, homosexuality did not exist before 1869, not before the Hungarian doctor Benkert invented it. Up until then,...

The man who missed the moonlight

The moonlight is lovely tonight. But I didn’t mean to write about this; my intention was to talk about a man who missed the moonlight. (What...

Birds of a feather flock together

Absalom, a forty-three year old man and a connoisseur of rock music in Kiato gave us a fair warning in the first place: “Rock...

Children need parents, not servants

  A beautiful spring day when the sun made its appearance again after a short break, I took my son to the neighborhood’s playground. As...