My thoughts and insights on the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence.
I grew up in a region that was known as the leather and glove capital of the world. It is often said that no one wants to know how the sausage is made. Well, I can assure you that no one wants to know how leather is made. Thankfully, I never worked in the leather […]
Just read this article and I must comment upon it. But first an excerpt Dolphins appear to get high off pufferfish defense chemicals. According to The Smithsonian, pufferfish produce a potent defensive chemical, which they eject when threatened. In small enough doses, however, the toxin seems to induce “a trance-like state” in dolphins that come
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Truth be told, I am not a crook. My brief encounter with crookedness occurred when I was about eight years old. Thankfully, the benevolent powers that be did not send me off to reform school for my heinous crime. On the corner of Crescendoe Road and Perry Street, there was a marvelous little mom-and-pop butcher shop
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I’d like to present to y’all today, a completely cynical view of work and the workplace. It is definitely embraced by some, but I would like to say that I have in fact always believed that truly great leaders take the blame and pass on the credit. I’m just laying out an alternative viewpoint that
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i regularly golf with a group of older, extremely white, extraordinarily right leaning dudes. They regularly engage in mildly offensive (to me anyways) discussions about the intrusions of societal change into their entitled lilly white world. I mostly ignore these discussions, as I have adopted aspects of the “Let Them Theory” espoused by Mel Robbins.
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I keep seeing various yo-yos showing up on TED and YouTube with self applied titles of “Futurist”. Where does one go to get schooled in the Futuristic Arts? I want to attain such notoriety, but know not the path to enlightenment. After much contemplation regarding my habits and proclivities, a question comes to my mind
I would like to propose a new school of philosophy based upon ideas expressed in the 1994 comedy, Forrest Gump. Note that there was also a book by Winston Groom entitled Forrest Gump which I do intend to read some day, but being the simple lazy ass man that I am, I shall use the
Philosophical thought for the day comes from Jerry Hall as she celebrates her 70th “Life is quite hard and short, you should have as much fun as you can.” Mick Jagger, always the contrarian, sez “You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need”
Philosophical thought for the day I just realized after having the kids stay here overnight and getting no sleep, that we have experienced “gramnesia”. That’s where you forget what it was like to have kids. LOL
Philosophical thought for the day comes from some pair of depression era happy boys. You gotta ac-cent-tchu-ate the positiveE-lim-i-nate the negativeAnd latch on to the affirmativeDon’t mess with Mr. In-BetweenYou got to spread joy up to the maximumBring gloom down to the minimumHave faith, or pandemoniumLiable to walk upon the scene
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