The Butterfly
Inside its cramped, protective cocoon, a butterfly changes from a rotund, crawling caterpillar into a beautiful, graceful, colorful butterfly. It undergoes this metamorphosis in the dark, all alone,...
View ArticleThe Most Dangerous Extremists in the World
If you want to find the real radical true believers, the real plotters of government takeovers, the real bomb setting terrorists, the real haters of our freedom, the real killers of countless innocent...
View ArticleBeasts Just Wanna Have Fun
Part One Something that is crystal clear to me is that nobody is perfect. All of us are flawed and lost and struggling for the duration of our lives. All of us encounter heartache, pain and...
View ArticlePolitically Correct
Are you, or is anyone you know, Politically Correct? If so, you may want to consider the consequences. Consequences, you say? What consequences? Well, how about this one. Being politically correct runs...
View ArticleI Wonder If …
I wonder if there would ever be another war, if, instead of mass slaughtering civilians, civilian homes, schools, and critical infrastructure… only heads of state would be bombed. If the innocent...
View ArticleShitty People
I want to ask you for your thoughts on something. While the subject is one that affects me directly, it is also one that affects everyone on a greater scale. This is a kind of problem that can be...
View ArticleBringing America to Breaking Point
I heard someone say, “At least we don’t have suicide bombers in America.” Oh, yeah? I hate to break it to you but we sure do have suicide bombers in America. Ours are the ones using assault rifles to...
View ArticleDogs Explaining Cats to Other Dogs
If you were someone like me who was sitting and thinking one day about how people develop a personal identity, and then you started thinking about how some people strongly identify themselves as...
View ArticleSo Free and Democratic n’shit
A long long time ago before there were such things as politicians, people used to talk to each other and tell the truth. They simply spoke their thoughts and feelings and talked of their experiences...
View ArticleThe Invisible Realm
Our bodies are formed from the elements of the Earth, we literally come into physical existence out of the Earth. Where does our consciousness come from? We know that everything that exists comes from...
View ArticleThe Ghosts of Reality
The universe seems to be impersonal, it has to be. It doesn’t play favorites and is unimpressed with things that captivate our weak mortal minds. Still I’m sure it has magic, there is a great deal we...
View ArticleRight and Wrong vs. Supporting the Cause
There’s a lot of head butting out there these days, something I don’t have much taste or tolerance for. I don’t see brute force as a proper determinant of winners and losers. Brute force is, in truth,...
View ArticleThink Or Be Eaten
Tonight was a monumental occasion, in a small at-home sort of way because The Tink, who is just reaching nine months old, got his very first collar. It’s a stylish little thing, all in black and white...
View ArticleOn Being Fully Here
In a beautiful remote corner of the world there is a vast and deep gorge separating this side from that side. A grand old oak tree swirled in a coat of wet fog stands at the nearest edge. As you...
View ArticleThe Law
We Americans are obsessed with rule-following and the law to the point of ignorance. We think of rules and laws as something from on high that must not be broken. We don’t believe we are free to...
View ArticleGenuine Truth
There’s a part in the book 1984 that’s stuck in my mind and comes up and around regularly like brain cud. It’s something I can’t swallow, but I can’t spit it out either, so round and round it goes in...
View ArticleThe First Corporation
Thousands of years ago people lived in close-knit clans and the population of the world was only a tiny fraction of what it is now. People could go an entire life time without ever encountering a...
View ArticleThe Killing Games
War makes me sick to my soul. What is worth the price of millions of dead people? There’s nothing worth having if that’s the cost. In trying to understand our society’s mindless acceptance of and...
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