When I started writing my blog, (six years of Sundays…damn!), I had this overly optimistic, (pronounced de-ranged), notion that if I tossed an idea or two or three-hundred-twelve out into the cyber ocean, that, message-in-a-bottle-like, it/they might one day be discovered by some faraway seeker of enlightenment and, depending on his…
I have, at best, a tacit relationship with philosophy. However, I have grown comfortable in my acceptance of “the speck of dust” theory of my importance in the cosmos, and as I sit here, pondering the passing navels of the patrons in this crowded coffee shop, I find I am…
When did the dumbest among us, (I love that pseudo-rhyme and will be using it again soon), get the loudest voice and headline press? Why would anybody give a shit what Donald Trump or any one of a gaggle of countless, mispronouncing, factually-challenged morons has to say? I know why. …
Lewis Carrol’s Queen of Hearts’ screams of, “Off with their heads!”, is an ingrained and recurring nightmare in the kid-scary part of the brain of most of us who read or saw some version of Alice’s Adventures. Descriptions and cinematic recreations of beheadments as capital punishment, (the infallible type), by…