Real Life as an Anime
If you’re a ‘boomer’ and not paying close attention, you may not know what ‘cosplay’ is. Maybe you heard the word, and if not for the...
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Ron Baron
- Dec 25, 2020
- 4 min
2020: The Year Hubris Met Its Match
Seventy-three years ago, Albert Camus wrote a novel he titled ‘The Plague.’ It shouldn’t surprise anyone that it has enjoyed a resurgence...
Ron Baron
- Dec 16, 2020
- 5 min
A Shop Keepers’ Elegy- May the Spring Winds Blow Warm
Just a rumor, but I’ve heard another of my favorite eateries will not reopen due to the economic devastation wrought by the pandemic. In...
Ron Baron
- Dec 11, 2020
- 7 min
Festus and the Green Hand
Old western movies never show an old western medical clinic. No long hallway with small rooms across from each other and a waiting room...
Ron Baron
- Dec 4, 2020
- 7 min
The Architects of Woke. Best We Wake Up.
Friedrick Nietzsche and Karl Marx To listen to this essay, click the play button above. Are you woke? Of course. One must be to read....
Ron Baron
- Nov 24, 2020
- 6 min
Like a Virus, People Die From Theories and Conspiracies
If you prefer to listen to this essay, please click the play button above. Some years ago, the wife of a president complained of a ‘vast...
Ron Baron
- Nov 20, 2020
- 5 min
Will Masks go Down as a Debunked 'Wives Tale?'
Just a refresher; sitting too close to the TV will not make you go blind, pulling out a grey hair will not create two new grey hairs,...
Ron Baron
- Nov 14, 2020
- 7 min
Freddie Goes to Therapy; the Bloody Snout
Freddie was glum. His owner thought he was depressed and did a quick smartphone search for a doggie shrink. Yes! They exist. He tapped...
Ron Baron
- Nov 5, 2020
- 5 min
The Power of Crying Uncle
…and things my uncles taught me. To young boys, uncles tower over you like an old-growth doug fir. And if they were a farmer of which I...
Ron Baron
- Oct 27, 2020
- 4 min
The Slow Slide Into Familia Dysphoria
There is a much-used metaphor of a frog in a pot of water that is slowly being warmed on a burner. So imperceptible the water warming...
Ron Baron
- Oct 20, 2020
- 6 min
The Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894
With the pandemic, and the election, and calls to take a knee or hold up a fist in racial contrition, I hesitate to add to anyone’s...
Ron Baron
- Oct 18, 2020
- 2 min
There Are No Ordinary People
With all the fanfare a humble post can muster, I announce the birth of our very first 'podcast.' I named her 'There Are No Ordinary...
Ron Baron
- Oct 6, 2020
- 4 min
Children Preachers and Youth Crusaders
Youthful warriors, preachers, and crusaders possibly look up at the sun and think that all is new. Urged on by adults with adult agendas,...
Ron Baron
- Sep 19, 2020
- 5 min
A Case for Racial Fluidity
The genetic differences between males and females is remarkable. Males have an X and Y chromosome, while females have two X chromosomes,...
Ron Baron
- Sep 17, 2020
- 6 min
I Have the Attention Span of a...
…goldfish! Ring the alarm! People who study these things are writing research papers telling of our declining attention span- oh… look...
Ron Baron
- Sep 10, 2020
- 6 min
Reno 911 and the Last Acceptable Bigotry
'Reno 911’ is a very funny sitcom. Situated in Reno, Nevada, an inept accident-prone sheriff’s department attempts to keep the peace...
Ron Baron
- Sep 7, 2020
- 4 min
Answer the Call - Become a Warrior
Some point skyward when describing the ‘call.’ Others tell of an inexplicably tickle or quiver of the conscious. Evidently, the voice of...
Ron Baron
- Aug 31, 2020
- 5 min
When Existential Nihilism Comes as a Mob
The young ‘are the future’ is one of those clichés that is self-evident. It is often the motivation for our caring about the future- “we...
Ron Baron
- Aug 26, 2020
- 6 min
Good Luck Bananas and Other Superstitions
Deep in the heart of Arizona atop a flat desert floor rests a very large mound of rocks. So vast is the pile, it is called a mountain....
Ron Baron
- Aug 19, 2020
- 5 min
Hate, Medications, and Other Remedies
Judging from politicians’ response, the media, and millions of social media pundits, Hydroxychloroquine was likely brewed deep in hell on...
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