NDN (pronounced En Dee En) was a short-lived road nickname that was bestowed upon me during one of my earliest, long distance, two-wheeling trips as I motorcycled the back roads as a light brown buffalo man in black leather in the dustier regions of the great plains. Given to me in Kansas, it stood for […]

The past week in America saw three unprovoked spasms of public mass violence in Gilroy CA, El Paso TX and Dayton OH. The perps were young single males. While violent crime is hardly the preserve of unmarried men, statistical evidence across the world shows a disproportionate amount of crimes are committed by this group. Societies […]

The utter madness of our daily national politics caused me to pause during the month just past to consider the local crazy in which I live and that I enjoy. Late last week I heard a Bob Dylan song on a cable TV music channel that lead me in a different direction. Fifty four summers […]

Author’s Note: Due to my advanced age, I am late in detecting several ripples in the American media space-time fabric. They involve words that I thought I understood but apparently did not. Here are three. – Marlow Squad Being aware of modern young uns approach to language, I first thought it might be the past […]