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Pushing fifty...gently...if I can find my glasses.
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I'm nearly fifty years old, and if it's all heading south, as they say, I'm going to sit back and enjoy the ride! My thoughts can be whimsical, scathing, sorrowful, hilarious, contemplative ... I always try to see through unclouded eyes ...
Recent Posts Tagged With 'madness'
Wise and beautiful rage ...
... fires through this essay by Adrian Worsfold, via the Episcopal Café.Somehow the heart is dying inside Christianity, Adrian writes, so that it becomes a pointless husk, where some of its core messages are tossed aside in order to promote one inst...
Of war and elephants*
Modern warfare is not natural; our bellicose human habits violate long-evolved prosocial norms shared by animals everywhere, including the mighty, brainy elephant. Elephant society only fell victim to "soldier's heart" when culls, poaching, and habit...
Jaliya down the rabbit hole.
I woke up this morning in the wake of an epic dream about Barack Obama. Dammit, I can't recall details, except that I was chasing after my friends, all of whom had met him. He was everywhere -- on a lawn, on a stage; in a house, on a stair. On a couc...
9/12
We are dying of preconceptions, outworn rules, decaying flags, venomous religions and sentimentalities.(Josephine W. Johnson, The Inland Island) None can be called deformed but the unkind.(William Shakespeare) ...
I'm sorry ... but I have to do it.
I have to appoint an A**hole of the Day ... no, two. I've just scanned the headlines at the Huffington Post and seen that Mike Huckabee, A**hole #1, recently suggested that, under his delusional interpretation of President Obama's proposed healthcare...
The line between reality and fantasy is blurring ...
Uh-oh. This morning I glanced through some headlines after a night of dreaming weirdness --> Spiders within spiders like Russian Matrushka dolls, sitting in the center of a web directly above my head ... Me in front of a mirror, puffing my lips into ...
You all know the one about blaming the dog ... ?
Well, here's a new one. Blaming the cat.Now, this is not a stretch for those of us who live with felines. Cats don't seem to fart with either the frequency or the revolting intensity of dogs ... so you can't pin that foul stench on a gassy puss. You ...
Quotation of the day: WTF?!
I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash.~ Sigmund Freud ~Freud said that!?... and the Western world took on his theories as psychological truth!?Quotation source: Quotations with an Attitude, by R...
How much does it cost us to state the obvious?
I've just come across a news headline:IN STUDY, TEXTING LIFTS CRASH RISK BY LARGE MARGINReally?! Well, I'll be flummoxed! Imagine that! Taking your hands off the steering wheel and your eyes off the road increases the risk that your car will collide ...
HELLLP!
I have become a pie fiend. I cannot stop eating pie! Especially cherry, strawberry-rhubarb, and peach pie! Every visit to the grocery store includes pie ... and I have just inhaled half of the strawberry-rhubarb pie that my husband brought home not a...
Ah, politics ...
... Human folly writ stupendously large ... Sarah resigns ... Al is confirmed. Happy, Wacky, Fourth of July! ...
She's baaack!
Yes, everybody's favourite syntax-shredder, Sarah Palin, is makin' the rounds again, you betcha! Listen up, now:... So Ronald Reagan spoke to us then with us here in our hearts is where he reached us, and that's where he won the arguments and then, t...
I can't resist ...
I've just seen a headline at the Huffington Post that says, "Bush officials tried to shift blame for detainee abuse to low-ranking soldiers."Of course they did, and continue to do. They can shift the blame all they want -- it's so easy to point all f...
Food for thought: Banks' Super Bowl Blowout
Bailout and Crash ...I read today that various and sundry mega-banks (I've started to think of them as such) spent scads and scads of money for Super Bowl hoopla -- parties, ads, and who knows what else. It seems that some of these banks were also on...
I have to rave, right now.
I've just found an article at the Huffington Post ... or should I say, a photograph. The carburetor in my brain went KABLOOEY before I could even click on the link. It's Suzanne Somers. This pic is driving me MAD. Check it out, all you middle agers:S...
T-minus 5 days ...
The Bush blowfish puffs up one last time ......
My impotent, furious, luminous heart ...
... flails at the bars of her cage.There is nothing more she can do; she isdone. She is choking onthis: No wonder our kind is going mad. We kill each others' children.I see my nephew in the wreckage of this child. I cannot help but see my little love...
The last word -- er, dribble -- on golden parachutes -- er, showers ...
(Swiped with thanks from Runesmith's Canadian Content -- http://runesmith.blogspot.com/)...
Finally, a pie chart that tells the truth
Reasons for winter car crashes:(swiped with thanks from Ellie at Child Of Illusion, who got it from Bits & Pieces)...
War's inevitable result
My two cents' worth on the Canadian Parliament's current shitstorm
Grow up, the whole lot of you. Quit the pissing contests! You go after each other like a pack of nefarious, back-stabbing siblings after the will gets read. That's mine! No, it's mine! No -- MINE! MINE! RrrrmmMINE! MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE! There's a...
Last Friday was "Red," alright ...
... Red with blood.I've just seen an article, titled "Red Friday," that discusses retail profits taken during last week's "Black Friday," -- the day after America's Thanksgiving, the kick-off to the Crassmas shopping season when people seem to boomer...
This is one of those days ...
... when I don't know my ass from a hole in the ground. (Coherence comes ... Coherence goes ...) ...
Why I am spitting mad right now ...
This is an excerpt from an interview that will be aired on ABC tonight. Charlie Gibson had the pleasure of listening to poor Dubya whinge about all the baddies and boo-boos that just ... uh, happened while he was president; to quote:"[T]he biggest re...
Palin pardons turkey?
No doubt you're well aware that Sarah Palin was interviewed recently in front of turkey slaughter-chutes that were, ah ... in full production behind her. I refused to watch the video. I've seen turkeys and pheasants being killed that way, close up. M...
Torturing Democracy ... and slaughtering children
A few days ago, I watched the documentary film Torturing Democracy. The next day, I stumbled about in a shocky fog. I still don't have anything coherent to say about what I witnessed ... only words of feeling come through the miasma so far: words lik...
Hell is a leaf-blower on full scream.
Given that:Today is a very windy day in my neck o' the woods, and ...... my neighbour across the street has been employing a leaf-blower for nearly 1.5 hours ...We can conclude that said neighbour is an idiot, IMHO, and I feel a terrible urge to whac...
The dark side of democracy
If I read the reports accurately, voters in the US have chosen to ban same-sex marriage in California (California?!), Florida, and Arizona.Here, again, is democracy at work. Here, too, is another pivotal civil-rights issue. Here, again, is belligeren...
Eoo ... creepy!
Pop quiz: What do you immediately think of when I write Prayer warriors?I think: inquisitions, beheadings, forced conversions, whole cultures wiped out. Sorry ... I've read too much, learned too much to think otherwise. Our good friend Sarah Palin us...
Delusion of the day
I think she's the most qualified of anyone recently who has run for vice president, to tell you the truth.(John McCain, of Sarah Palin)(Citation here: http://thepage.time.com/more-on-mccains-interview-with-imus/) ...
