There’s this Big Thread in our culture about companies, neighbors, businesses “keeping you safe.” Doing things / not doing things in order to keep you safe. Whether that’s restricting your ability smoke near my door, requiring a CoVid mask, putting up a railing in all the right places, or what ever. Read more…
So, someone “got all over me” the other day for using the English neutral pronoun “he” — which is distressingly like the masculine pronoun(1) — and said (this person said), “I don’t do gender identification and I take it personally that you do.” Words to that effect… So I said Read more…
There’s always this war between the generations. Seems like it, anyway. I suspect it was not always that way, but explaining why I think so isn’t in scope of this posting. This is just a simple observation. The Old distrust the Young partly because they remember what it’s like to Read more…
Some one just said the most marvelous thing to me, apropos of what doesn’t matter. It stands by itself. When people say the glass is half empty or the glass is half full, they forget: it’s a glass; you can refill it! Wow. [30]
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 was reminded of an old(-ish) quote by the science writer, college professor, general Know-It-All, considered one of the smartest people of the 20th century, Dr. Isaac Asimov. Anytime you watch a movie or TV sci-fi where some one is quoting that a robot “can not harm a Human, or Read more…
Just a personal observation, really, though one that as a student of human psychology fascinates me in other ways too. There are pairings of actors that I get mixed up. For example: Al Pacino and Dustin Hoffman. Val Kilmer and Dennis Quaid. Several others. I find though, that much of 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…