Sonny's Castle Dangerous

Among the pleasures of retirement is the freedom to research anything that arouses my curiosity. That is what led me to the Urim and the Thu...

I read recently of the theory of the multiverse, which states that our reality may be just one of a huge number of parallel universes. Artic...

Such has been my status for the past three years. I never pictured myself as the sort of person who retired early. But somehow events and ch...

By Elaine H. Pagels 1979;  Vintage Books/Random House;  182 pages ISBN 0-679-72453-2 I wasn't seeking religious enlightenment when I...

I've long thought that "Bitches Crystal" is one of the best tracks on Emerson Lake & Palmer's 1971 LP  Tarkus.   It h...

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.  In the past week I've seen Alien: Covenant, Prometheus and Logan . The experience has left me fee...

After a four-hour bender  at a neighborhood tavern in Youngwood PA,   including "shots of liquor," this patron became so intoxicat...

When it comes to self-castration stories, this one tops this list. It's from The Latrobe (PA) Bulletin. Briefly: this person castrated h...

Treasure hunters are still finding gold coins from a Spanish fleet that sank off Vero Beach, Florida in 1715.  The most recent discoveries: ...

A Christian friend once told me that he didn't like Halloween because it was "the Devil's holiday." That struck me as drea...

Author Stephen King’s career has been marked by enormous output paired with repeated tragedy and recovery. His latest comeback is, to this ...

The Seattle band Floating Bridge released the song "Don't Mean a Thing" in 1969.  I loved it back then, when I was 15 years ...

After hours of watching the Republican and Democratic party conventions, I have a question. Many questions, actually.   Some candidates...

The plot of Unfriended   (available on HBO Go) is easy to grasp, but this film is unconventional to say the least. It takes place entirely...

By John Grisham Doubleday, 368 pp.  ISBN:   978-0-385-53714-8 John Grisham is a novel-writing machine, having pumped out some 29 boo...

According to this story in The New Yorker , there is a culture of treasure hunting in southwest Poland. With good reason: they keep finding ...

This 1990 film directed by Ken Loach takes on a complex political issue: the role of the British in Northern Ireland in the 1980s. There are...

Selected items from the Watlington Hoard Probably buried over 1,000 years ago, this coin hoard was discovered in a farmer's field i...

305 pp, Reagan Arthur/Little Brown, 2012 ISBN 978-0-316-20323-4 (Kindle edition) This is a novel about high school cheerleaders. But don...

Proving once again that you can find just about anything you desire on the internet, someone has created a blog about the London Transport...