I have had it… just totally had it. I just sent a message to my state representative (imagine that?) over some thing important to me, trying to ensure that it’s important to him as well. (Or at least that he’s aware of it; the best that can be done most Read more…
This is taken from Frank Herbert’s magnificent Dune series, specifically The Children of Dune [the third of six books]. The story and the series have never yet been done properly in video, perhaps never will be. Frankly, the work is too broad, too deep and too all encompassing as a commentary on Read more…
Sometimes I use words that are perfectly ordinary words — to me — defined in any quality dictionary(1), but some listener / reader comes back all offended. How dare you use that word!? How dare you? Don’t you know blah-blah-blah? Well, golly gee wiz, Mrs. Grundy(2). You find certain words offensive? Alright… Read more…
An utterly fabulous quote from Colonel Sherman Potter (MASH, 4077th): “There’s a Right Way and a Wrong Way to do everything, and the Wrong Way is to keep trying to make everybody else do it the Right Way.” You know what? It just doesn’t get any clearer than that. [30] Read more…
I talk a bit here and there about obedience just for obedience being a bad idea. However… I don’t mean to suggest that when I’m in someone’s private home or professional space that I do what I want regardless of that person’s wishes. It’s His Space, therefore it’s His* Rules. Read more…
Some people think Blind Obedience to Authority is proper and moral behavior. That anything else erodes a society. Martin Luther, for one (which is kind of ironic, actually, since he is best known for refusing a certain, particular Authority). Problem with that (obedience, not Martin Luther) is that it is Read more…
We the People, in order to create a more perfect union… First two lines from the United States of America’s Constitution — the law of the land. Note: it says more perfect, acknowledging right there, right at the start, that a perfect form of government may be impossible, but can be striven Read more…