Month: January 2017

The press limits and fixates its reporting of earthquakes to measurements on the Richter scale. They toss us a number, usually projected at the epicenter of a target behind them, and we take their dollop of science and run with it. The higher the number, the greater the pucker factor.  Done. But the Richter scale […]

Today we honor Dr. Martin Luther King. In four days, Donald Trump will become our 45th president. It was the best of minds. It is the worst of minds. The juxtaposition between these two men boggles any mind. Dr. King was unmatched as a courageous visionary, a brilliant and enlightened man of peace who lifted […]