Runcible Cat's Bazaar

 Reflections on being 85 Mirror, mirror on the wall, Why should a person care at all, If in the mirror he's looking old When in the grav...

  MONEY CHANGERS Jesus was a lunatic; A kind and gentle fraud. He did some clever magic tricks to keep the yokels awed. But when he pissed t...

  On Easter, many celebrate the feast of the Resurrection,  but I prefer to celebrate Easter.  "Easter" is a form of the name, Est...

      Last Sunday, I seized upon a great Ash Wednesday activity for any church congregation.  I proposed the idea to my minister, and she th...

The Virtue of Nationalism . ( The following is a text of a paper I presented to the Cedar Valley Unitarian Universalists on April 7, 2019...

       I  have a book suggestion for those of you that would like a fun and fascinating read to take your mind off politics. It's "...

The Cat's Book Review: Destiny Disrupted:   A History of the World through Islamic Eyes,   by Tamim Ansary. A   Book Review.   Part...