Random Thoughts by Mark Milliorn

Rudyard Kipling was more than just the man who wrote The Jungle Book , although I confess that whenever I hear his name, the first thing tha...

The name James recurs frequently in my family.   It was my father’s name.   I have numerous cousins named James.   It is the middle name of ...

Did 5,000 Siberian Cats really save Western Civilization?    (Spoiler Alert:   Nope.)   The story goes something like this: During the Si...

In Robert Heinlein ’s 1956 novel, Time for the Stars , mankind’s most important scientific work is financed by an organization called the Lo...

You could call it royal hypocrisy.   You could call it cognitive dissonance.   You could even call it moral inconsistency—assuming, of cours...