Author: Thomas Fleming
Greece in November
We are tentatively planning a small group trip to Greece of about 10 days for November 2025. The rough plan is to arrive and spend perhaps three nights in Athens and see the usual sights, then a bus will take us to Nauplion/Nafplio on the East coast of the Peloponnesus and from there visit Mycenae and Epidauros, and perhaps Tiryns and/or Nemea
Old Wine in New Bottles, Part I: The Kids Are Not All Right [sic]
In any decent society, patterns of deference are the foundation of the social order: the young defer to the old, females defer to males, parents defer to children. Any senior member who allows his juniors or inferiors to treat him with contempt or indifference is undermining the order and potentially rearing a sociopath who will prey upon his fellows.
Old Wine in New Bottles, Preface II
Most of us, when we were children, tried to explain away some deviation from parental norms on the grounds that “All the other kids are sporting a ducktail and wearing leather jackets or smoking dope and listening to Hendrix.”
Old Wine in New Bottles, Preface Part I
After this tedious exposition, we shall get down to such questions as whether or not people who use cell phones in restaurants should suffer summary and immediate executions,
