Everything seems more important, or at least more pretentious, when it’s in Latin, don’t you think?  The title of this week’s work refers to the Woke, so-called Progressive movement that’s plaguing our country, and it asks the question, “Where’s the progress?”  Another question which might be posed by someone like Cato the Elder could be, […]

(Our politics grows more and more depressing, and I’ve been on vacation this week, so here’s something different and a bit lighthearted) The Earth has been around, most scientists agree, for 4.6 billion years or so.  We may think of our planet as “The Big Blue Marble” or as a world of temperate climates and […]