Category Archives for "Miscellaneous"

Jan 17

The Parable of the Two Maggots

Humor , Miscellaneous

This is an old story I found and wish to share. I did not write the original story. Oh, and the cover photo is just fun. There was a fly circling some geese looking for a place to lay her eggs. She spotted the perfect goose with an open wound just under the edge of […]

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Jan 16

Language is the Furniture of the Mind

Humor , Miscellaneous

This is a very important concept, because the language we use, the words that float though our minds like letters in alphabet soup, really do determine how we see the world. And if you want to redecorate your world, you change the furniture. We all have a “vocabulary;” words that we know. However, just because […]

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Dec 01

An Interesting Look at COVID-19 Data

Miscellaneous

If you don’t know, and who couldn’t possibly know, there are sites all over the web showing us the latest data on the corona virus, in all different ways using raw figures, estimates, and graphic presentations. I decided to take a different kind of look at the data and I’ve found some interesting points. First, […]

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Sep 27

History of Film — Bugs Bunny Exposed

Miscellaneous

By way of introduction, no, this has nothing to do with wellness, although the entertainment industry tried for decades to reinforce strict standards of morality that were intended to create better citizens. Your author is a journalist with many interests and I thought this might be of interest to some. And if you go to […]

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May 23

Conspiracy Theories

Miscellaneous

We have become the most well-informed people in the history of the world, while at the same time choosing to be morons who believe nonsense. Believing conspiracy theories is a very strange phenomenon, because we all know “something is dreadfully wrong” with society. But instead of using the God-given sense we have to suss it […]

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Apr 19

A New Novel

Miscellaneous

. . . produced during a self-quarantine. Your author has two things in common with Martin Scorsese. Italian descent. We both despise the Superhero genre. It is not film. They consist of the same damn plot, void of any acting, encased in the best computer graphics on the planet. They raise the audience’s blood pressure […]

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