At some point, (and possibly, that could have been from the beginning of time), the ‘how’ something was said far outweighed the ‘what’. That’s been called lots of things like, the art of persuasion, influence peddling, preaching, lobbying, bull pucky or the six o’clock news. The Internet, since its miniscule…
Synonyms are fun. Every few weeks there seems to be another popular posting referencing an extensive list of like-meaning words, the ardent sharing of which would indicate copious interest. As a writer/poet/lyricist, I often find delight in a clever synonymic turn of phrase. Topically, however, like trying to find a…
…share this with someone between the ages of 18 and 25. It is so existentially important that we infringe on their TikTok dalliances and meme-sharing to rally their natural influencing tendencies. Their numbers are the key to the future and the future has arrived. Abstaining is not an option. There…
Next to religion, (the tactics of which it very closely resembles), it’s the world’s biggest scam and, like many things where exorbitant profits can be gleaned, Americans have honed its abuses to an algorithmic science. Like preachers, insurance salesmen are masters at convincing people that they have something that you…
Not the kind most people think of like when expectantly awaiting delivery of a pizza or a shit ton of thankfully returnable, impulsively purchased Amazon crap. Rather, …the arrangement or disposition of people or things in relation to each other according to a particular sequence, pattern, or method kind. I…
The Romans had laws in 450 BC. Hammurabi wrote an entire Babylonian law book around 1790 BC. Certainly, there were biblical commandments that would predate these if bibles appeared anywhere before 300 CE. It seems that societal beings realized that there was a pressing need for formal ground rules…murder, assault…
Why do all the horrible actors, the despicable Trumps and their buffoonish, (Rudy, Steve, Roger, Sidney…), inner circle, the batshit crazy members, (Mitch, Jim, Marco, Ted, Lindsey, Kevin, Marjorie, Lauren…), of Congress, the pillow guy, the Overstock guy, Home Depot and AT&T, take every opportunity to make a stand for…
The thing about the theory, (I mean, really, do we still have to pretend it’s a theory since we have that empirical DNA comparison analysis and all?), is, that it is contradictory to religious poppycock, and that multiverse of magical thinking has been so mindlessly ingrained in most humans, we…
I got the COVID. I was absolutely sure I couldn’t…then, I did. It sucked. There was a really, really bad part in the middle of the close to two-week arc, but mostly, it was an annoying inconvenience and a stark reminder of how different and fragile social interaction has become. …