What Means “Woke”?

There’s been this “new” word around for a short while and it finally ocurred to me that I don’t know what it means given how it’s being used. Woke. “I woke up just as the sun rose.” “That dissertation really woke him up.” That’s my meaning… But they mean something Read more…

Cyber Security

Date line: 20 July 2024… (da-da-di-da… <teletype noises in the background>) Yesterday’s dramatic “failure” of the Internet was because of a faulty update. Not because of a terrorist attack, or because of a junior wanna-be hacker… but because of a “legitimate” update. The Super-Duper-Supreme irony here is that it was Read more…

The News — 19 July 2024

I can’t keep it in… I gotta let it out. The news today is ridiculous. Just stuns me… the Republican National Convention actually did it — nominated an unsentenced convicted felon for president.  Not unexpected, but frankly disgraceful all the same. We could conceivably end up with a president serving Read more…

The Sun

Did you ever stop to notice that the Sun is the source of all shadows? Wihtout light there are no shadows. Ah, but we turn on a flashlight? Yes? No: that flashlight is using energy that ultimately came from the sun. So, it’s still the sun. Ok, then, what about Read more…

Dateline April 2023

Strange News in the World today. Most of it, even as honestly reported as can be found, is moderately alarming, moderately disappointing, as Humanity continues with all it’s unconscious behaviors. That said,  here are my thoughts on a few selected items from Today’s News — 7 April 2023.   MidEast Read more…

Imponderables as 2022 Ends

Just some thoughts as 2022 winds down. All artificial sweeteners have now been implicated in various forms of dementia / senility, not just aspertaime. Why are they still legal? Why is aspertaime legal, when it kills, maimes and debilitates so many people every year? (In fact, in many countries it is Read more…

You Can’t Do That

So I was speaking with a friend a night or eight ago and we were talking about how often legislation backfires on the legislators and especially on Society, how such legislation often causes the very problem(s) it was meant to prevent, and I heard my self say: You can’t legislate Read more…

Citizens vs Subjects

Just a thing to ponder… Subjects are controlled by their government (King, Council, Parliament, Proconsul, Congress, what ever) Citizens control their government. Dumb-funnies are those who (among other things) wonder aimlessly and planlessly into the capital building thinking, thereby, to take over the government. Or perhaps believe they will “start Read more…