Eric Harris was one of the Columbine shooters commonly identified as the baby-faced, innocent looking one.  After the killings many people made the mistake of thinking that the harder, tougher looking Dylan Klebold must have drawn sweet faced Harris into the murderous plot.  We now know that it was the

A few years ago I met Lana Wood at a James Bond event sponsored by my good friend Doug Redenius. Doug has amassed many James Bond collectibles from the films and even provided others for use in the 007 movies. The plan was to have Richard Kiel who played the

When you read the headline to this blog, I’m sure many of you thought, “Well, it’s about time.”  Not yet and it’s more about ammunition than guns. The truth is that the guns laws are so weak that authorities had to do quite a stretch to charge Douglas Haig, 55,

In my last blog I talked about the evils of religious persecution, but where does one draw the line between religion and politics?  It is natural for Americans to view the great migration from Mid Eastern countries as people desiring to escape the war torn violence all around them.  To

Religion is always a touchy subject. It seems to be all about taking sides – defending on and condemning all others.  I would rather talk about faith and spirit.  There are two points to this article.  The first is that the recent attacks against Muslims in Europe are atrocious and

And it all came tumbling down.  In 1978 I moved from Illinois to Malibu, California. My rent went from $145 a month to $1,050 a month.  I lived in a five bedroom house with four roommates.  There were famous people everywhere.  Movie stars in the grocery store. rock stars in the

Now here’s something I bet you haven’t thought about. Many scientists now believe that the ocean floor is sinking and that’s very bad – as if you didn’t have enough to worry about.  Another side effect of global warming is that melting glaciers are adding so much extra water into the world’s

Philip K Dick was an American science fiction writer who explored a wide range of political, social and philosophical themes in his novels. He was born on December 15, 1928 in Illinois but moved to California as a young child. Many of his stories centered around all powerful and dictatorial

This week we are republishing this year’s most popular blog which was on Bob Dylan accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature back in March. Last week Bob Dylan performed in Stockholm and while he was there he met with the Nobel Prize Committee and accepted this year’s award for literature.

They both may embrace Communism as their form of government, but there have always been vast differences between Russia and China.  The brutal purist form of communism adopted by Mao Te Sung, the leader of the Chinese Revolution in the forties resulted in tens of millions of deaths.  The people