Evil and its Tools
“Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky Ever since the...
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Ron Baron
- May 21
- 5 min
For the Love of Hate
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to...
Ron Baron
- Jul 4, 2021
- 23 min
What Humpty Dumpty Can Teach us About Climate Alarmism
How 'Settled' science nearly succeeded in destroying mother nature's most perfect food. "I have high cholesterol," my mother sighed over...
Ron Baron
- Jul 4, 2021
- 7 min
The Year is 2039: Hearing Aids, Drones, and UNSOZIAL
The year is 2039. Facebook and Twitter have been taken over by the UN to preserve global peace and rebranded as UNSOZIAL. The acronym...
Ron Baron
- Jul 4, 2021
- 7 min
The year is 2039: Sepia Lives to Bark Again
Part Two of a Dystopian Novel Set in 2039 In Part One, we met Wayne Decker, a very old man kept comfortable at a state retirement...
Ron Baron
- Jul 4, 2021
- 7 min
The Year is 2039: Naked as a Hairy Chimp
The following is a serialized novel set in the year 2039. Wayne, the protagonist, is comfortably warehoused in a state owned late-stage...
Ron Baron
- Jul 4, 2021
- 10 min
The Year is 2039- Where's the Beef?
In my last email, I hinted at sharing a novel I'm writing. It's not uncommon today to 'serialize' one's writing and offer it over...
Ron Baron
- Mar 5, 2021
- 4 min
First Shall Be Last, and the Last Shall be First
There are millions of us boomers. Unlike newborns who are mostly sleeping, smooth, healthy, and nary a care in the world, we suffer from...
Ron Baron
- Feb 25, 2021
- 4 min
The Tolerant Eyes of Helen Keller
It was Shakespeare who wrote, “The eyes are the window to your soul.” His use of ‘soul’ suggests a spiritual man. Historians mostly...
Ron Baron
- Feb 9, 2021
- 5 min
Nosophobia on the Front Porch
There is an attractive young family that lives nearby. If posed standing proudly on the porch of their modest mid-century two-story, they...
Ron Baron
- Feb 1, 2021
- 4 min
Things Learned Standing on a Dot
It is difficult to fathom that we’ve been asked to keep one fathom (1 fathom = 6 feet or 1.8 meters) apart for nearly a year already. It...
Ron Baron
- Feb 1, 2021
- 5 min
In Search of Essential
Have you ever attempted to list all the essential things in your life? All the things that would be difficult to live without? Perhaps,...
Ron Baron
- Jan 15, 2021
- 5 min
The World My Granddaughters Inherit
I had just become a young man from being a young boy when I attempted to raise my own young boys. Much too young, I think back. I now...
Ron Baron
- Dec 31, 2020
- 4 min
Real Life as an Anime
If you’re a ‘boomer’ and not paying close attention, you may not know what ‘cosplay’ is. Maybe you heard the word, and if not for the...
Ron Baron
- Dec 19, 2020
- 5 min
The Shop Keepers' Elegy - May the Spring Winds Blow Warm
Just a rumor, but I’ve heard another of my favorite eateries will not reopen due to the economic devastation wrought by the pandemic. In...
Ron Baron
- Dec 10, 2020
- 7 min
Festus and the Green Hand
Prefer to listen to this essay? Press the play button. Old western movies never show an old western medical clinic. No long hallway with...
Ron Baron
- Dec 4, 2020
- 7 min
The Architects of Woke. Best We Wake Up.
Friedrick Nietzsche and Karl Marx To listen to this essay, press the play icon. Are you woke? Of course. One must be to read. Woke is the...
Ron Baron
- Nov 24, 2020
- 6 min
Like a Virus, People Die From Theories and Conspiracies
To listen to this essay, click the play button above. Some years ago, the wife of a president complained of a ‘vast right-wing’...
Ron Baron
- Nov 20, 2020
- 5 min
Will Masks go Down as a Debunked 'Wives Tale?"
Just a refresher; sitting too close to the TV will not make you go blind, pulling out a grey hair will not create two new grey hairs,...
Ron Baron
- Nov 12, 2020
- 5 min
The Power of Crying Uncle
...and things I learned from my uncles. To young boys, uncles tower over you like an old-growth doug fir. And if they were a farmer of...