Fiat Lux
Chinese poster from 1987 promoting one-child policy. Text reads, “Fewer and better births revitalize China”. Provided by IISG, via Flickr. January 8 2019 – It has to be easy to imagine the smiles on faces of millions of Chinese men and women over this great piece of news: the Chinese government has decided to reverse the one-child policy and to allow families to have more than one child, which has…
July 10 2016 Don’t you worry, sir, I will of course write about Muhammad Ali, the Greatest, who left us this past week. He is the man who made us of a certain generation feel like we had a big brother who would “whup” the Big Ugly Bear that dared bully us, whoever that was. And did we love the “Chump” or did we love him. He beat all the…...
December 21 2015 Our bright little lady century is coming out at the sweet age of sixteen, and this is perhaps something we may or may not celebrate, given what has been and what we have seen. Still, wishing each other the best does denote good manners and proper conduct, and on this I certainly am keen. To my readers and friends, comrades all, I take this space to send…...
Pardon me if I’ve already told you this one, but it’s a favourite of mine from a film I watched as a young man. It was based on Rudyard Kipling’s “The Man Who Would Be King”, and starred Sean Connery and Michael Caine. Two young English adventurers arrive at the gate of some Western Asian town, probably occupied by the Pashtun. This is an area forever in thrall to the…...