The digital world is so alluring. It can leave us breathless, invoke love and even bring us to ourselves when it moves us to tears. But still it is not real when our emotions tell us it is real. We feel it is interacting with us. Our emotions tell us it is. But it is … Read more
It all comes back to the movie, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The first one, anyway. The new Timothy Chalamet one is just bad, and the tone of the Johnny Depp remake may have been closer to the original book, but it sucks next to the classic Gene Wilder 1980’s one. And that’s the problem. … Read more
I am an anti-Trump Democrat but very early in the pandemic I became extremely alarmed about the vaccine. I have a background in science and what I was frantically reading every day, 9 hours a day, did not look good at all. I was in a group of scientists, doctors and an actuary which read … Read more
As the election is fast approaching and the countless media reports and conversations from others sharing their opinions on who should be elected, I can’t help but reflect on how history has shown that humanity has always needed a leader to look to for guidance and direction. Whether it be for a community, religious, or … Read more
As a guy, I’m motivated to write this one mainly because I’m sick of almost, but not quite, seeing nipples on screen. They’re so close, mere inches away, I can just barely glimpse the edges of the areola, and then nothing. Damn you, Hollywood! However, the covering up of nipples in the bedroom, right after … Read more
I can’t figure it out. These are supposedly Christian people who believe, like Jesus, in loving your neighbor, believe in the moral code reinforced by Jesus (thou shalt not commit adultery; thou shalt not kill, turn the other cheek). Adultery is the least of Trump’s sexual sins and when he said “I could murder someone … Read more
I read one of those One Hundred Years Ago prediction articles earlier today. They’re fun to check out, if only for the “Dear God, we were so wrong. Why do we ever listen to predictions?” aspect of them. One of the predictions from 1924 was that in 2024 there would be no war. Humanity will … Read more
Enjoy our empire in decline…it’s generally the fun part. Assuming we ever actually had the moral high ground, it’s now gone. And I say, “good riddance.” It’s a position that blinds you to reality, confuses honest diplomacy, and allows smugness to reign supreme. Nobody likes deluded arrogance, and that’s basically been our default position. I’m … Read more
1) Hordes of zombie teenagers walking around, not talking to each other, staring into little blinking rectangles 2) A man claiming he was born the wrong gender, while not living in an insane asylum 3) Suburbanites walking around behind their dogs and collecting their poop in a bag 4) The news telling us to eat … Read more
The Biden administration seems to be doing everything politically possible to force Americans away from the internal combustion engine and into electric vehicles. Whether the Climate Change alarmists are right or wrong, this is still probably a noble goal, but is it a remotely feasible one? First off, the electric car is not the new … Read more