Cafe Jack

I recently finished reading "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville. I found it an easy book to read - clear plot, well-developed character...

If you happen to be a Rip Van Winkle sort, and have spent decades asleep in the woods, it may come as a surprise that the U.S. Tax Code is h...

My first title for this essay was - Metempsychosis, Synchronicity, Pythagoras and Herman Melville. I'll try to explain. I've been re...

 I love the BBC Radio 4 show " In Our Time " with Melvyn Bragg. There's a thousand or so episodes about philosophical, histori...

  Being a  Crazy Clown   or sad Patsy Cline  in the good old US of A is a heck of a lot better than listening to North Korean propaganda ab...

I find the Gary Snyder poem " For the Children " beautiful in its simplicity; “stay together, know the flowers go light” And hopef...

If you're interested in some of what's happening in the right-wing YouTube media sphere I highly recommend RM Brown. I think his sho...

Apple's version of The Velveteen Rabbit will be available Wednesday November 22nd. I love the book. I wrote a little bit about the Skin ...

It seemed pretty obvious to me by February of 2019 that Donald Trunk would not leave office peacefully .  He proved that prediction right wi...

I been talking to my best friend Bard about the we're the good guys quote from Cormac McCarthy's novel "The Road".  ____...

It seems cool to me that the Barbie Movie is such an opportunity for learning either by the cool (like this video) or the uncool but hilari...

Since this is St. Patrick's Day and people are thinking about Ireland maybe it's a good day to think a little about Irish history. T...

Marxist philosophy appears to me somewhat like a cartoon we had at work of a person writing a giant complicated equation on a chalkboard an...

Words like woke, conservative, and liberal are often used in political discourse to label people, groups, or ideas. But what do these words ...