Politics
E Pluribus Unum (Surf’s up!)
We think we are just one process, apart from our environment https://youtu.be/SoYc9wcg65A We are not. We are in this together. The service for which you thank USS taught us that. But we come home and it is all me, me, me. It is not sustainable. But... Our cup runneth over. If we can help, ask&h...
Be Clueful, not rueful…
To rue the day is at least to consider the folly of the choices what brung you to the day in question. It is a start. But advanced users can look to the future and easily predict so many many things that most accidents are truly negligence, but we all help hide the bodies one…
One must risk madness itself, if Truth be the goal…
It is customary for the collapse of a society to be precipitated by a grasp at the past, as the last vestiges of a controlling culture are slowly being swept aside by the Arc of Time. They fear, and have no sense of reality but that which they can hold, or convince the public is…
Call it indentured servitude then
For a country that never fails to pay lip service to veterans (and their spouses, who do just as much, for no medals), y'all don't seem to understand the level of servitude you have put yourself into. I can't protect your liberty by getting shot at overseas if you are going to not pay attention&...
Why There are Checks and Balances
I am not a fan of pure democracy. I never have been. I have never believed that an opinion, just because a majority felt it was right, was a moral certainty. I have always held my own rationality as the highest authority to which I answer. I have not always been right in m...
Brilliant quote
I tivo the Daily Show, and was catching up tonight. Bill O'Reilley was on the show a week or so ago, and of course he started spouting about tradition as an excuse to keep everything the same. Jon Stewart had one of the quickest and most brilliant retorts I had ever heard, and I wante...