Washington, DC, USA. In this, our all so post-modern world, the left and right extremes, the political base of Democrats and Republicans respectively, treat reality as if truth is freely exchangeable, in whole or in part, with some fantastical gospel that conforms to their own self-fabricated artifacts and fables.

Left and Right, Right and Left, following their own drummers in a march, humming hymns and anthems, chanting repetitive slogans, and waving their splendid banners and gloriously const

Washington, DC, USA. We have grown accustomed to hearing gunfire in the streets. Casually launched personal attacks are routine in the half-civilized, lawless existence that is the internet.

Rather than some shiny exemplar of modernity, the internet is more like a sprawling jumbled mass of huts, tents, cabins and saloons. A small town; in many ways, a very strange small town.

Washington, DC, USA. From the viewpoint of evolutionary biology, if such a thing can be said to have a viewpoint, the female body is designed to attract and retain, if possible, the male. Similarly, the male body has evolved to be sexually attractive to the female.

That is the way of the world. The way of primates and most all of the creatures on this planet, God or no. The human way.

Washington, DC, USA. Strip the Human Race absolutely naked and what is left? It is the eye of other people that ruin us. [N1]

Although we enter the world most certainly without clothes, each and most every one of us lives in society that require us to be dressed. The clothes often wear us, rather than we, them.

Washington, DC, USA. When in the course of human events … Sorry, that’s been used hasn’t it? What about We, The People — nope, even I have used that crutch far too many times.

The first thing you need when writing a column is a writer. All present and accounted for and seated at my laptop listening to the quintessential American composer Charles Ives.