According to the Rs, we will all soon be rolling in giant piles of gold like Scrooge McDuck. And according to the Ds, we will all soon be stuck picking cotton in the fields and scrounging through trash cans for uneaten McDonalds hamburgers. I can also assure you that if the Ds were in power, […]
Philosophical observation for the day So I decide to do a little research on Count Basie. I start typing in Google “Count” and the Autocomplete in Google gives me the top picks. Count Chocula Count Dracula Count Dooku Count Olaf Count your blessing Count of Monty Cristo Count Duckula Google support gives this helpful insight
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According to astronomers there are 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe. Of course that number is just a guesstimate, since “observable” is defined by an itsy bitsy teensy weensy yellow polka dot telescope that is careening through space above us at 4.72 miles per second. Multiplying that by the number of stars in the
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One of the truly great philosophers of the 20th century is a fellow with the mysterious moniker of “Bancini”. He didn’t say much, but when he did, people listened and stood in awe of his insightful commentary on the human condition. Bancini spent the majority of his adult life as a voluntary resident in the
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I have a dream, in which I am writing a novel. In that dream, the words tumble from my fingers in coherent sentences, completely immersing my audience in a world that challenges the way that they have thought about their very existence. In reality, the words flow off of my fingers in drubs and drabs
The thought has recently occurred to me that the value of money is completely in our minds. Money has value because we all really really really WANT it to have value. It is an article of faith that has been imprinted on all of humanity that a US dollar is actually worth something. In this
Thinking today about the absurdity of life. What makes a person want to live after all? Is it a hope for the future, that you have something that you must accomplish? And if you accomplish it, what then? A scientist hopes to discover something novel, an engineer hopes to invent something, a doctor hopes to
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Don’t know about you, but I sure spend a lot of time contemplating the past. Not in the sense of what might have been or mistakes that I might have made, but more like reliving things that I had enjoyed. It is a wistful nostalgia that ignores the bad and focuses on the good. You
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Sitting here at the car dealer getting my inspection sticker renewed on my car and my mind drifts back to my first car, a puke green 1966 Volkswagen Beetle with a moon roof. I know what you’re thinkin’ …. What? This guy is way too cool to have owned such a POS. At the time
We all know where we have been, since that cannot be changed. Some say that they know where they are going, with their lives all mapped out before them. But is that really ever true? Shit changes, that is just a fact. There may be some parallel universe somewhere in which people are able to
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