Ramblings of a Depressive mind, pt.2 – Oscars Edition
It’s award season, and so this special Academy Awards edition of “Ramblings of a Depressive Mind.” Art is a wonderful thing. It has been said that labor is how we […]
Author Archives: Charles Bretan
Why I Went to Selma
In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, We have brought this post out of the archives. Sunday, March 8, 2015, fifty years and one day after “Bloody Sunday,” I […]
Good & Evil, redux
About a month from this posting we will hosting our second book salon. The text chosen (not to be confused with the “Chosen Text”) is The Banality of Good and […]
Explaining Away the Myth of Judeo-Christianity While Standing on One Foot
I love The Princess Bride. It is filled with so many memorable quotations: “Life is pain. Anyone who says differently is selling something,” “True love is the greatest thing in […]
A Jew and A Gentile walk into a Bar . . . Mitzvah 