The Truth Barrier

Why we lack courage * We lack courage because if we happen sometimes to be brave as individuals we know that we will for sure be undercut by committees (by managers).  Once this has happened, once some individual has done …

Inversion, perfected. Headline, 2012: Some Greeks Might Have To Pay For Their Jobs   (Is it grammatically correct to say “might” here or should it be: “Some Greeks May Have To Pay For Their Jobs?”)

“In the Land of Nod, East of Eden” This city is built upon a city. That city was built upon an older city. And that city was built upon a town. Before the town there was only a village. Before …

Hi Celia, MATTER The quest of physics has always basically been to discover what ‘matter’ is; what the fundamental building block of the reality we experience is actually made of. Once they had made the discovery of the atom, scientists …

“The difference between the old and the new physics is simple and profound; both the old and the new physics were dealing with shadow-symbols, but the new physics was forced to be aware of the fact; forced to be aware …

War reporters are extrarordinary, ignored, marginalized, or never mentioned at all, in this culture, which feeds us no real journalism anymore (why did she work in the UK?) God bless Marie Colvin, and may she not be forgotten. Why aren’t …

OK. We start again. A few devoted readers more or less begged me to stop the Maintenance Mode pretensions and come back on the air. Sometimes all it takes is one person to say: Don’t shut up, which I was …

Via www.OMSJ.org, and Clark Baker, comes this inspiring story about a 17 year old genius who formulated a nano-technology delivery system for cancer drugs that would spare all cells but the cancer cells. It’s not clear to me what the …

  A new book by Tim Weiner, Enemies: A History of the FBI, is a history of the FBI based on “a foundation of over 70,000 recently de-classified documents,” according to the author.  This explosive book excerpt at long last …

People have offered me the very valid critique of The Truth Barrier that they don’t really understand what it is. Fair enough. Most days, I don’t either. Much like a person, it’s not one thing, though it struggles for clarity …

By R.A. Davis (Inspired by the tale of Jeremy & Mickey) It was probably late spring or even early summer when this happened, but in the end we shall, I promise, all agree it happened on Valentine’s Day.   We …

I wanted to share a few poems today, that speak to love from any or all sides. If this really is a truth barrier, then the truth from where I stand is that for most people (and by people I …

  Here’s the plan: Valentine’s Day will be celebrated properly at The Truth Barrier, where love is our favorite subject. Ruminations on love and favorite poems and quotations all day. (“Yes Professor.”) I’ve had to lock my little furry Valentine …

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