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Champion Of Stupid
I am the Champion of Stupid. I insist on giving away all my writing, poetry, drawings, and piano recordings—nobody wants them—but I started this before I knew that, so it still counts. I quit jobs (back when I had jobs) whenever I felt they were taking advantage. (They’re always taking…
Important News
If I stop and think about it, I can barely remember what was ‘important’ two weeks ago. There was a government shutdown, a chemical weapon in Syria, a record-breaking typhoon devastated the Philippines, a record-breaking cold snap in the whole western half of our country—there were a lot of things.…
Take That
We get the shaft, right? Some fat, rich pigs get in a snit over some BS or other—and we find ourselves shooting at each other. We get trained to fly-by-wire the drones or aim the laser sight at the top of the bunker or doing crowd control at some consulate’s…
New on VOD - October 2013
What else? O, yeah, VOD has new releases I thoroughly enjoyed; first was “The Heat”, a buddy-cop film with Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy —I have a guilty pleasure when it comes to Sandra Bullock—I just like her, what can I say? And who can help but love Melissa McCarthy,…
Our Dog is Getting On
Tuesday, the Wonder Dog, is ten years old, which makes her seventy, in dog years. So I worry about the impending inevitability, even though she’s still very fit, and only a little more prone to sleeping than she was. Why do I upset myself with these thoughts? They don’t accomplish…
Augmentation, But In A Bad Way
I am opposed to the solutions being offered by the Republican party. Their suggestion that the government be re-opened until January 2014, and the debt ceiling increased until February 2014, is ludicrous. The whole point of this exercise, as I have come to understand it, is to remove these accounting…
Wait A Minute
I listen to my recordings of myself playing the piano. At first (back in the audio-cassette era) it gave me painful proof that the bliss I felt in playing was not translating into good music—it was something else. Without any musical talent I had kept playing the piano as therapy—always…
Are We Asking The Right Questions?
I suppose the more accurate title would be ‘Are we asking questions?’—I’m asking if, in a society with ‘news-reporting’ wherein news-people ask the ‘important’ questions, we haven’t lost sight of the fact that we have our own questions we don’t see being asked on the news? No matter how important…
Life, Liberty, And The Pursuit Of What Now?
I didn’t enjoy my introduction to life—from birth to the end of high school I was told what to do, what not to do, and what to watch out for. I was told to respect things and people. I was told to obey certain authority figures and to avoid certain…
Hostile Takeover
Early on I was made to understand that life is a struggle, that a lot of life is competition, deception and even violence. What was missing was today’s reassurance of a child’s safety to back me up in the great antagonism that is one’s life. I was schooled quite thoroughly…
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What The World Needs
Now…is A Liberal Arts
Education
I watched "In Performance at the White House: Burt Bacharach and Hal David: The Library of Congress…
My Information Folder
Back during the Cold War, which was a part of the world I was born into in 1956 and remained a part…
This Chariot Of The Gods
No Longer In Service
There are many who theorize that aliens in ancient times had visited Earth for one reason or another.…
The West And The Rest?
I watched “Civilization: the West and the Rest with Niall Ferguson” on PBS. Niall Ferguson’s concept…
Look Ma — No Wires
April Fool’s Day! I love April Fool’s Day. Well, I use to—now I don’t know it’s come until…
Don’t Listen To That
Software, Listen To Your
Teacher!
Anyone else troubled by voice-recognition software? I like the TV ad where the kid gets the ‘lady-voice’…
Strange, New Worlds—and
New Civilizations…
Cyberspace has manifested solidity, at least in so far as it’s a characteristic place that many people…
What America Have You
Been Living In?
What’s with all this hate-speech from the Republican candidates? They want to undo our acceptance…
Caveat Emptor
Well, I made a mistake—you know how it is—you get tired, you get sloppy, and the Internet is no…
Rush And Christ’s
Bleeding Edge
The Republican Primary race has provided us with a very confused image of religiosity. Does Theism vs.…