I never found anything scary about Halloween when I was a kid. Even the accompanying “horror films” made me chuckle. Of course, there was the fear of getting caught for participating in some Hell Night prank, but that was more about subsequent punishment than mortal danger. And…there was candy. Not…
Just when you thought it couldn’t possibly get any stupider…it got stupiderer.
I am scratching this into a rock on the remote chance that anyone with the ability to read it survives. I have no idea how many of my species remain alive. The floods, the fires and the inbred survival instincts of desperate humans and other feral animals have pretty much…
I think most of us have had a childhood or perhaps an adult experience of competing against someone who treated the rules of engagement with disdain. I don’t mean a benign or bemused misunderstanding, like my mother’s version of UNO. I mean someone who is so desperate to win, that…
There was probably a specific point in time, maybe in ancient Greece or perhaps the day after it was even a thing, when the idea of politics, being a gathering of well-meaning, smarty pantsers with ideas for making the lives of the citizenry more organized, productive, and beneficial, went off…