Rational Rant

“We set around the kitchen fire an’ has the mostest fun | A-list’nin’ to the witch-tales ’at Annie tells about, | An’ the Gobble-uns ’at gi...

T oday I am trying to, you know, make sense of a world gone to crap. I have annoying pains—not exactly pains, but sensations—in my chest, a...

T oday is 29 February 12024, one of the rarest days on the Gregorian calendar, in that it comes in fewer than one out of every four years. ...

I t’s 26 February 12024 and I feel like writing something—pretty much anything, actually. I’m working on a text of Jane Austen’s Persuasion...

M any years ago I did a piece of research on a quotation falsely attributed to Patrick Henry. I see that a post at American Creation has c...

♃   6 April 12023 is International Asexuality Day . It is also an International Day of Sport for Development and Peace . In various local...

☿   5 April 12023 is the day before Passover or, thanks to days on the Hebrew calendar beginning at sunset, the beginning of Passover it...