Peter A. Hempel   In the summer of 1996, I found myself in an all too familiar situation – out of work and desperate.   I was living in...

Peter A. Hempel   I am not sad that this rose will die. I have picked it – it scolds me for the cutting short, the pain. I do not choose...

Dr. Peter A. Hempel                                                                        Spring 1988 Intro. to Life and Thought 101  ...

What do we want? We want landscapes, And mountains to climb, And cliffs we can fall from.   Random quotes & observations I judge,...

Peter A. Hempel I’m writing this to put together my views on the situation in Gaza and the protests It’s a pretty complicated topic, and...

Peter A. Hempel Boobs are sex signals. It would seem unnecessary to say something as obvious as this, particularly in a culture where...

URSULA K.LEGUIN’S HEROIC PURITANISM - "WOKENESS" GOES TO HELL IN A HANDBASKET The Gethenians do not see one another as men or women. This...

Princeton, NJ No release date set: Confidential – for internal use only A spokesperson for President Christopher Eisgruber of Princeton...

The play Hamlet grows out of the tradition of the revenge tragedy, a great favorite of the Elizabethan audience. In the conventional...

"Satan sends us temptations. God sends us opportunities." Dear pastor O, Last week while I was hiking out in the woods for fun, I found a...

The current court cases over affirmative action – this time raised about discrimination against Asians at the most selective colleges –...

Recently there has been renewed discussion of Vladimir Nabokov's once scandalous Lolita , thanks to an article in the New York Times by...

My opening question was inspired by a well-intentioned idea on the part of the committee that organized my 50th high school reunion this...

Age is the money shot in an obit. Followed by cause of death as a close second. My father, Carl G. Hempel, was a professor of...

One of the things that gets a lot of coverage in the news these days is the search for exo-planets circling around other stars in our...

“Life is. It goes. And it does not count. That was the hurtling truth that comes to rattle everyone as they grow up, grow old.” Jim...

February 2, 2013 (Warning: spoilers ahead.) I haven’t really kept up with my movie-going lately, but Django stood out for me quite...

January 24, 2012 {Note: This is in response to an article in Slate: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2012/01/apple_s_e_te...

June 11, 2011 · It's part of Windows 7 I believe. I finally decided to test it out by saying (carefully enunciating) the old phrase:...

May 21, 2010 · In my previous post on this freak, I urged her to accept the offer to do porn movies to actually bother to earn a living...