This is a Test: War of the Worlds

First published Oct. 27,2016 Link to original Dear Friend and Reader: For his weekly program on Halloween eve of 1938, a young Orson Welles tried something new. For some months, his Mercury Theater on the Air had run on Columbia Broadcasting System (the CBS Radio Network) with a small listenership. On the evening of Oct. … Read more

Uranus, Eris and the Riddle of the Internet by Eric Francis

Published June 23, 2016 | Link to original Dear Friend and Reader: Have I mentioned that I’ve been trying to figure out the internet? I was aware that when you click on something, something new appears on the screen. I knew if you post a naked picture to Facebook they kick you out for a … Read more

What’s That Sound? Uranus Meets Eris in Aries

Link to original Dear Friend and Reader: There is an astrological event brewing that happens this spring for the first time since 1927: a conjunction of two slow-moving outer planets called Uranus and Eris. You may recall that Eris became famous in 2006 when it precipitated the re-definition of a planet, leading to the ‘demotion’ … Read more

Global Warming and the Potluck Dinner

Link to original Dear Friend and Reader: A few months ago I was a guest on Caravan to Midnight, a popular nightly Internet video interview program, invited on to talk about Monsanto’s fraudulent way of doing business and poisoning our bodies. I gave a recitation of the company’s key points of history back to its … Read more

Hermes, Whispering at the Moon

Link to original Dear Friend and Reader: When the Moon opposes the Sun once a month, the planets don’t stop, though it’s one habit of astrology to pretend as if they do. Of course, most astrology is based on pretending to make the planets stop; they don’t stop at the time you’re born, but that … Read more