I ate a grasshopper today. I didn’t want to, but I’m an artist and artists are supposed to suffer for their craft, so I figured eating a bug would do it. I’m not kidding. I was sitting at my desk with ...

So reads the moral in the tale of the ant and the grasshopper. While the grasshopper fiddled the summer months away, the ant diligently prepared for the onslaught of the coming winter. In the ...

Consider the lowly grasshopper: Celebrated in children’s books, light poetry and silly songs, they are also condemned as ravenous pillagers in both biblical scripture and pioneer history. Yet ...

Call it by whatever name, the economic system of modern times favors indiscipline of individuals, societies and governments. Remember Aesop's parable of ant and grasshopper? The ant works hard all ...