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How we fund the means of our dysfunction “If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or...
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Ron Baron
- May 21, 2021
- 5 min
Modern Church Ladies
The Judgmentalist are everywhere. Back in 1986, some lowly Saturday Night Live costume courtier was asked to procure a laughably modest...
Ron Baron
- May 15, 2021
- 7 min
The Year is 2039: Naked as a Hairy Chimp
The following is a serialized novel set in the year 2039. Wayne, the protagonist, is comfortably warehoused in a state owned late-stage...
Ron Baron
- May 2, 2021
- 7 min
The year is 2039: Sepia Lives to Bark Again
Part Two of a Dystopian Novel Set in 2039 In Part One, we met Wayne Decker, a very old man kept comfortable at a state retirement...
Ron Baron
- Apr 27, 2021
- 1 min
Why I Read John McWhorter
Mr. McWhorter is a very curious man. He is highly educated, a serious thinker, a gifted writer, and today he finds himself fascinated if...
Ron Baron
- Apr 24, 2021
- 10 min
The Year is 2039- Where's the Beef?
In my last email, I hinted at sharing a novel I'm writing. It's not uncommon today to 'serialize' one's writing and offer it over...
Ron Baron
- Apr 22, 2021
- 2 min
Rule of Mob
With the word 'justice' in nearly every paragraph, its meaning, at least in an authoritative dictionary sense, appears under constant...
Ron Baron
- Apr 18, 2021
- 1 min
When Taught What to Think
It is interesting to watch smart people ponder. Temples pulsate as the insufferably curious consider each big question. Some questions...
Ron Baron
- Apr 11, 2021
- 4 min
Memories From a Red Ford Station Wagon
My life started as a snot-nosed kid with curly blond hair riding unbelted in the back seat of my parent's red 1955 Ford station wagon. ...
Ron Baron
- Apr 9, 2021
- 1 min
Believers and Enablers
Vanity Fair writer, Peter Savodnik, sees an interesting parallel between hunting for witches in the village of Salem, Massachusetts, and...
Ron Baron
- Mar 31, 2021
- 1 min
How Will Coyotes Howl Without Sheet Music?
Perhaps the spring winds have stirred microbes or distributed evaporated sun-dried neurotransmitter remnants and have resulted in a 'new'...
Ron Baron
- Mar 18, 2021
- 1 min
The Mask: Nanometers vs. Millimeters
If wearing a mask has provided you with security and confidence and reading something that questions those assumptions will make you...
Ron Baron
- Mar 14, 2021
- 1 min
Fear of Retaliation, Students Remain Quiet
Most parents remain quiet for the same reason. But now, gingerly and with great trepidation, a few parents are beginning to ask...
Ron Baron
- Mar 9, 2021
- 1 min
Food and Retirement
It was great being young! Eat anything in any quantity and your body took the abuse without complaint. If it did revolt, it would be...
Ron Baron
- Mar 4, 2021
- 4 min
First Shall Be Last, and the Last Shall be First
There are millions of us boomers. Unlike newborns who are mostly sleeping, smooth, healthy, and nary a care in the world, we suffer from...
Ron Baron
- Feb 25, 2021
- 1 min
The Elect: Woke Theology
It must have become uncomfortable. Finally, she blurted, "It's what I believe and that's all I'm going to say!" She may have grown...
Ron Baron
- Feb 23, 2021
- 1 min
The History of Forced Apologies
As children, we all remember when a sibling or friend demanded we apologize for a misdeed. If not, off to mother they waddle. Apologize...
Ron Baron
- Feb 18, 2021
- 4 min
The Tolerant Eyes of Helen Keller
It was Shakespeare who wrote, “The eyes are the window to your soul.” His use of ‘soul’ suggests a spiritual man. Historians mostly...
Ron Baron
- Feb 17, 2021
- 1 min
Real Scientist Are Provoked by Boundless Curiosity
'Even Pontius Pilate claimed to be motivated by the truth' observes Lord Christopher Monckton of Brenchley. And so too academia. But...
Ron Baron
- Feb 15, 2021
- 1 min
Boomers Taken to the Wood Shed
My notion that the generation of my grandparents, the 'greatest generation' somehow rubbed off making the 'boomer generation' nearly as...
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