Today the media is reporting on a five-year study made by researchers at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City to discover why Roman Catholic priests in such great numbers abused boys (mostly).  The most obvious answers could have been supplied as one-size-fits-all. Why did the priests abuse the boys?  Because they could. Why was it mostly boys?  Because...

Book as dance — NOT an object but a time-art.  This is a concept I’ve been pursuing for a while.  Bless Dave Lull, “the cross-pollinating librarian,” for sending me this quote this morning, just as I was about to embark on the rough seas of explanation. (I don’t have anything against book critics per se — just the idea that I have to agree with them. ...

Those who have good memories or who have been taking notes will recall the last on the list of five universal and innate value dimensions recently proposed by research is “disgust.”  There has been quite a bit of discussion about “the morality of disgust.” I’ve been rereading the third of Tim Barrus’ Eighties novels about AIDS, the one called “Genocide”...

Stimulating defective immune function to perform efficiently is a desirable approach to defeating pathogens. Such stimulation is represented as unavailable, while in truth the immunostimulating properties of lithium and antidepressants were documented many years ago.[1-4]  A therapeutic claim is reinforced when the mechanism is known. Prostaglandins, when produced excessively,...

Stimulating defective immune function to perform efficiently is a desirable approach to defeating pathogens. Such stimulation is represented as unavailable, while in truth the immunostimulating properties of lithium and antidepressants were documented many years ago.[1-4]  A therapeutic claim is reinforced when the mechanism is known. Prostaglandins, when produced excessively,...