(Elie Wiesel has died. He survived a Nazi concentration camp, and ever since spread the Jewish mantra, “Never Again!” He added, “Never remain silent in the face of oppression.” Elie Wiesel and this writer were born in the same year. We experienced differenct outrages against humanity in different parts of the world. The following is...

THE WORLD AS IT IS, based on facts, is a pretty scary place. A way to help wrap your brain around that one, so it’s...

THE WORLD AS IT IS, based on facts, is a pretty scary place. A way to help wrap your brain around that one, so it’s less encumbered by one’s own relative biases, or comforts and discomforts, is to imagine yourself...

Image by James Robert Terrell (Bob) DRAGONSLAYERandWitchery Justice She stole into the dark forest, crying as she went, and did not heed the gathering gloom of dusk. Soon, she had gone so deep into the woods that thorns reached out...

It's 1986, and am in California, studying towards a graduate degree in cultural anthropology, but am considering medicine with my background in biology, being beyond curious about neuroscience. In my mind, I'm also thinking about veterinary school at UC Davis,...

It's December of 1975.  Finals, papers, and Christmas are behind me. A foot of old snow carpets most places not disturbed, but several feet, some of it fresh according to the weather reports, deck the mountains of New Hampshire. As...

With this dramatic page, Infected Blood goes on an indefinite hiatus. During the pandemic, I tried really hard to keep up with this comic, but I didn't make it for several reasons, the most important one being having caught COVID-19...

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