Alice Cooper is a fraud. The granddaddy of shock rock, who peaked somewhere around the election of Jimmy Carter, is a prominent if not...

There are some elements of rock that have simply gotten stronger and stronger over time, immune to the dilutions of fashion and...

She carefully tied her shoes with well-crafted loops (as always), tucking the shopping list (which was almost always the same) into the...

Young Jessie Petrie scooted herself up in her bed with effort, cautious of the IV in her left arm, rising up enough to survey her entire...

Sunlight flared and the windshield dimmed, and the Director glanced to his left as the transport dropped past his own cruiser, tossing...

Anna Lembke, a psychiatrist at Stanford University, reported to the Wall Street Journal that we are facing a new and dangerous form of...

Kai-Fu Lee believes that humankind has risen to a whole new level of war-waging. In his new book 2041: Ten Visions of Our Future, Lee...

Much has been made of the fact that Star Trek is, underneath the hull, a humanist manifesto. This derives from creator Gene Roddenberry’s...

As I write this, it is the day after Apple TV’s new adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation epic – stories of the far future, when...

No religious clap-trap, no holy book, no ideology, no textbook, not even any Beatles song can match the clarity and honesty and reality...

The sociologist Tony Campolo (who is also a Baptist Evangelical minister) has made a side career of speaking to multinational...

On the Star Trek spin-off Deep Space 9, there are these two characters – Dr. Julian Bashir and Leeta, the Bajoran dabo girl – who have a...

“The spot where we’re standing,” said the spunky little guide with her dimples and green eyes and perky tits, “is ten million years old!...

Star Trek had played huge in my ADHD youth, as detailed above. My first ADHD tribe, the guys at Franklin County High, had all been Trek...

Lindy. She was brainy and beautiful and blonde and thoughtful and introspective and funny and principled and unlike any woman I’d ever...

The new school at which I arrived in the fall of 1976 – Franklin County High in Frankfort, Kentucky – was a completely different...

In October of 1977, I got my first real job. Taking a cue from school friends I bowled with on Saturday mornings, I became a bag boy at...

While all of this is going on, through the late Sixties and early Seventies, another kid exactly the same age as me is having exactly the...

ANY PERSONAL STORY about living with Attention Deficit & Hyperactivity Disorder – ADHD – necessarily begins in the genes. This is because...

Two very significant things happened during these few years at IUS. One was Dr. D, as described above. The second thing is that my home...