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I wanna to be an Airborn Ranger. I wanna live a life of danger… So goes one the of the military chants that occur during training sessions for our service members. Since WWII and the Vietnam conflict, which ended in … Continue reading →

Idalia. That’s the name of a tropical storm that in the next few hours–maybe before I finish this posting–is expected to turn into a category 3 hurricane, packing winds of near 100 mph. It is expected to hit somewhat north … Continue reading →

What are you watching? Nothing. Well, I see you staring at the tele, so you must know what you’re watching, huh? There. Now the tele has gone to black. Can I legitimately now say I am watching nothing? Then why … Continue reading →

Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. That segment from William Butler Yeats‘ poem The Second Coming, always had relevance as a summation of the chaos and calamity contained in life-at-large. Life is … Continue reading →

Has it really been forty-one months since the covid shut-down? Did that universally stressful stretch of time really happen? Stuck at home, with even the fitbit strolls, saunters, amblings, and power hikes becoming somewhat self-delusional as far as sustaining that … Continue reading →

As of the past week, it has become vividly clear the Supreme Court is a 67% rogue operation, doing the bidding of the billionaire class and its fascist faction of anti-democratic fanatics. The most egregious evidence of this creepy reality … Continue reading →

Hey ladies and dudes, boys and girls, kiddies and carpet crawlers, it’s the last day of June, 2023. That makes it akin to half-time in the smash mouth game of NFL football. To extend the analogy, this “half-time” highlights the … Continue reading →

Sci-fi writer William Gibson imagined a world where computerization becomes less a life-easing commodity for humankind than a ever more self-aware form of artificial intelligence. Artificial maybe, but a “real” part of everyday life here in 2023. Been reading about … Continue reading →

Do you have a brain? Of course you do. Humans are no different than many other species of life on Mother Earth. There are some exceptions. For instance, the sponge is a brainless organism. Hmm. Maybe that’s why sponges are … Continue reading →

Lacta alea est? Omnia amittitur? Spes fontium aeternarum? Es iocari? Aperi oculos tuos. Malus prohibitum. Aufferens sumus immo super! Ius est iniuriam. Iniuria est. Sursum est. Deorsum est sursum. Est scibere. Legere id intra New York Times. Washington Post. Fictus … Continue reading →