How do you know when a politician is lying? For that matter, how do you know when anyone is lying? The answer is – You don’t. The world is full of bull shit, and so am I. So there!
A bit of stoic philosophy for you from one of the great stoic philosophers The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control. Where then […]
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I fear that I would be remiss if I did not post about the greatest disaster to occur in my lifetime. After 60 plus years on this planet, I thought that I had experienced every disaster imaginable. I have survived the Cuban Missile Crisis, The Cold War, Vietnam War, multiple economic catastrophes, multiple stock market
The whole damn world has gone nuts. Things that I thought were accepted principles have been thrown out the window. These fundamental changes in belief systems and accepted principles seem to have been triggered by the current Corona Virus pandemic that is sweeping the world.
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I have recently been informed by my barber that Satan hissef has taken over the Democratic party as well as Bill Gates. They are, in fact, actively working to undermine the current administration. I was also told that Donald J Trump was chosen by God hissef to implement God’s will on Earth. Now that there
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I must depart from my normal discourse regarding growing up Hammond-style, and instead focus on something that everyone else seems to be focused on. You know, when one little birdy starts to chirping, all of the rest of the birds gotta join in. Have you ever been in a nursery? It can be dead quiet,
Psychopaths are really having their special moment this year aren’t they? Well, I think this is just a portent of things to come. I am no Nostradamus, but I really think I am onto this one, so bear with me as I expound and obfuscate upon this most important of modern trends. I hereby
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Just t’other day whilst sitting in the sauna at the YMCA, the topic of jury duty came up amongst the amalgam of old bastards sweating and farting on the wooden benches. Says one fellow – “I just throw the damn things in the garbage. Been doing it for years with no repercussions.” Another pipes up
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Today, as I was listening to that bastion of liberal thought (NPR), it occurred to me that the decline of civilization can be linked to a single series of events. Possibly, it could be just one event, perpetuated by one man, that caused the cascade to commence. The man is Wolf Blitzer. On my wildest
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Way back in the before times, when engineering school was foremost in my mind, I took a couple of courses in control systems engineering. Control systems engineering studies the modeling of dynamic systems and the design of controllers that will make such systems behave in some predefined way. It makes use of complex mathematical equations
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I am outraged, you are outraged, the whole damn world is outraged. The adage that “old age is an excellent time for outrage” appears to ring painfully true. I do not remember ever being outraged as a young person. The older I get, the more easily I become outraged by any person, place, action, or