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INT. LIVING ROOM – DAY ANNA and BETH, two hot young things, are on the sofa playing a video game.  Each has a different bag of Doritos; one, the classic Nacho Cheese, the other Cool Ranch. Anna:  “Die! Beth:  “You die!” Something drops … Continue reading →

It took decades, but I finally entered the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, by far the world’s greatest contest of bad writing. My entry: The jar was oozing, and the ooze was jarring: a dank fetid oleaginous slime that slapped and slithered across … Continue reading →

Just…not very rapidly: (Hat tip: powerline.)

As there’s no avoiding politics if you spend any time with media, you should be familiar with the greatest political speech of all time.  Every single politician constantly tries to slide “if-by-whiskey” arguments past you.  But none will ever compare with the … Continue reading →

So apparently Bernie is planning a speech to explain his “Democratic Socialism”. Let me first explain it to Sanders. Democratic socialism would be between everyone who votes for it, i.e. voluntary socialism. But if you use the democratic process to … Continue reading →

Haven’t been posting for the best of reasons:  wasn’t sure any message of mine adds value for you. But today, should any of you be Kindle owners, Amazon has a deal. The Stress of Her Regard for a buck ninety-niner! Tim Powers is … Continue reading →

Cloud chambers have come a long way since 1911.  A co-worker was viewing this.  The action starts around the 1:40 mark.

I see the Obama/Iranian mullahs deal went through.  Don’t know any details, and can’t sacrifice my hard-won zazen with any kind of de-ignorantization process. So this time, I just hopped over to the Jerusalem Post.  Knowing no specifics of the … Continue reading →

Worked on that G.K. Chesterton essay, only to switch it to a back-burner.   But his observations remain jaw-droppingly prescient and very worth your while.  We’ll return someday, hopefully. Meanwhile I am hoping…praying…to resume writing, and more seriously than ever before.   There … Continue reading →

G.K. Chesterton’s What’s Wrong With the World (pub. 1910) is epic, astounding, and hardly ever wrong. This morning I started Part III: Feminism, or, The Mistake about Woman. Chesterton does the ol’ “compare and contrast” with regards to Female Suffrage: … Continue reading →