Christmas is the closest thing to a universal holiday.  I don’t mean that in a religious sense, not, at least, in the Christian meaning of the holiday.  Instead, I’m referring to the idea that there is a creator who didn’t just create this world we inhabit.  He (hereinafter “It,” because gender identity is just […]

According to the President-elect, the election was a landslide.  That’s how Donald Trump characterized his victory when someone had the temerity to ask him if he had any concerns about his loss of the popular vote.  He called his election a landslide after saying he would have won the popular vote too, if that was […]

              Led by Artistic Director and Chief Conductor Long Yu, the China Philharmonic Orchestra returned to the Mondavi Center (on the campus of U.C. Davis) for the third time last weekend.  The excellent concert featured the performance of Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto by a twelve-year-old prodigy, but the highlight of the program was the opening […]

Back in October of 1998, at the height of the Monica Lewinsky scandal (the one that led to the impeachment of Bill Clinton), I wrote a tongue-in-cheek article that was published in the Gazette.  In the article, I jokingly predicted where some of the key players in the scandal would be in ten years.  It […]