There is a divide in the United States that will play out three Fridays from today, as it does every year, that typifies the chasm between Black Friday and Buy Nothing Day. Black versus Buy Nothing may not be the first divisive pairing you think of when you think of opposing groups in the U.S. […]
You Knew A Rant Was Coming!
Why are people so stupid? Why do people support actions and people that work against there own interests? They do you know. It is a Horatio Alger thing. Only smart people will get that reference. Well, I chalk it up (maybe I should say chuck it up) to evolution. Yep. Most people, even really educated […]
Peripheral Iridotomy
So far so good. The laser procedure, a peripheral iridotomy, that I had today did not cause the fluid in my eyes to boil and my eyes did not explode. There was almost no chance that such a thing could happen. The micro-wattage of the laser used in such procedures does not have enough power to boil […]
Voting Helps Your Karma
I woke up thinking about Karma and voting. Voting helps your Karma. At the most basic level there is heredity, environment, and Karma. Too many western people think that eastern belief systems promote a lackadaisical attitude and behavior because the path is set due to past action. It is true that moral causation lies at […]
Assessing the Mess
Time escalates at an alarming rate as I pass through life. I am already planning on responding to Nablopomo comments and such during lunch tomorrow so I can have the evening to clean the house before I have laser eye surgery on Tuesday. I don’t know how I used to do the 8-5, raise a […]
The Veil Thinned and I Traveled Along Its Folds
The morning after Halloween I awoke from a night of dreams that bordered on the stark disquiet that is nightmare. I felt as though my spirit journeyed along the thinning veil between the worlds that separates the here and now from possible futures and pasts lived by all who came before us. I started on this journey […]