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October 28, 2021 “How differently would one deal with youth if one could more clearly see the remote effects of the usual method of treatment, which is employed always, without discrimination, frequently without discretion!” “Tolerance never led to civil war; intolerance has covered the earth with carnage.” Whether Jean-Jacques Rousseau is writing his Confessions orContinue reading “Rights of Humanity Vindicated”

Written December 18, 2021 Growing up most who are taught about natural selection are introduced to the British scientist Charles Darwin, whose theories are interpreted one of two ways; he is either a genius, or a nut-job. As we get older and decide to further our level of education- whether formally or otherwise, we canContinue reading “Darwin, Science and Me”

Written June 25, 2022 What would it take for you to sell your soul? Money? Success? Fame? A culmination of the three? Would you risk driving yourself to the edge of madness for someone you know you should not trust? The story has been told before; a character gets tempted by a sinister being andContinue reading “The Good, the Bad, and the Faustian”

Written September 20, 2021 O human love, thou spirit given, On Earth of all we hope in Heaven! Which fall’st into the souls like rain Upon the siroc-wither’d plain, And, failing in thy power to bless, But leav’st in the heart of wilderness! Idea! Which bindest life around With music of so strange a soundContinue reading “Devotion: Never Lost in Translation”

Written August 17, 2019             Along with having a Zygoma that would make a cheese knife jealous, Benedict Cumberbatch marvelously portrays the fictitious, and often socially blind, detective created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and is brought up as one of the many iterations of Sherlock Holmes. Whether you prefer the serious only-time-for-fun-when-I-drank-to-much, Cumberbatch andContinue reading “Sherlock Holmes and Fanfiction: A Study in the Development of Humanity”

“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” “Any idiot can face a crisis; it’s this day-to-day living that wears you out.”