A Matter of Attitude.
So this meme popped up after the election: It’s been equally hard on all of us? Hunh. I could note it’s harder on all the kids the Republicans locked in …
Category: Wanderings
So That Election…
U.S. elections. Painful. Especially painful when neighbors are screaming that when they win, they will jail or kill all their opponents. Like God intended. Makes me want to move out. …
Think You’re White? Guess Again.
Ah, the joys of classifying yourself by “skin color.” When I was a kid, “white” was synonymous with “WASP”: White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. Anglo-Saxons were an invention, of course, of folks …
The Nature of Pain
The nature of pain is to constrict a person’s world. For people struggling with a progressive disease, it can be an amazingly subtle thing, where you look back after years …
Things That Irritate Me
On today’s list of things that irritate me: I just can’t handle the topic THIS GROUP WAS FOUNDED ON. So… I’m gonna leave the group after wasting your time. And …
Kissy Face
I’m fascinated by the idea of how the Proud Boys, who took an oath not to masturbate, will react to this: https://www.washingtonblade.com/…/gay-men-take-over…/ Who are the Proud Boys? Oh, your run-of-the-mill …
A Relationship Born in Babylon
Like any good hack, I tend to be obsessed about how things came to be. In the case of civilization, the answers keep getting clearer and clearer. Thanks to the …
Scribbling on the Walls
It’s sobering that I have an expertise in one of the primary tools of the enemy. That would be writing (I’m not trying to make a mystery of this). Why …
How to Frame a Narrative (“Thug Life” version)
This was… uncomfortable to write. I did this on a social media feed when someone tried to justify a 17-year old killing two protestors and maiming a third. So, I …
How to Frame a Narrative (the “War Prayer” version)
Have you ever read Twain’s “The War Prayer”? If not, here it is: Consider the below, an attempt at the War Prayer 2020 A child comes to Kenosha, full of …