So many people I read or talk to seem to think that we shrews are making inroads, primarily in the court system. “This is all crumbling down,” they cheer. “The truth is coming out, we are winning!” Fat chance. Now, I don’t want to be a 24/7 doomsayer—I DO believe there has been some successful […]
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28 Jun 2024
Progress and Potatoes
Please note this is a humour piece which is not something people may want to read depending on the state of your country and how demoralized/angry you may be about the state of the world. Seriously. And so it was that the two old women (who would not admit to being old at all and …Original post on […]
24 Jun 2024
Mission Creep: How the Police State Acclimates Us to Being Modern-Day Slaves
“In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one can argue, to whom one can present grievances, on whom the pressures of power can be exerted. Bureaucracy is the form of government in which everybody is deprived of political freedom, of the power to act; for the rule by Nobody is […]
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17 Jun 2024
Timely Lessons About Tyranny from the Father of the Constitution
“Take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties.” James Madison James Madison, often referred to as the “Father of the Constitution,” once predicted that the Bill of Rights would become mere “parchment barrier,” words on paper ignored by successive generations of Americans. How right he was. […]
15 Jun 2024
The Death of the Shadow
Recently my sister gave me an article written in a weekly magazine that the El Convento Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico printed back in 1963. The little magazine was titled The San Juan Diary published once a week. It was chock full of ads (more ads than print copy!) primarily advertising for […]
15 Jun 2024
Welcome to the Age of Abstraction
The UK Metereological Office has just reported that we have enjoyed the hottest May on record. Meanwhile, those of us who have lived in the UK during May have endured unseasonal cold and rain, and have complained to one another constantly about it. Welcome to the age of abstraction, when lived […]
14 Jun 2024
Damage is a Given
The heavy rains are rich with life in the Spring. Even when the lilacs have died and the wafting scent of lily-of-the-valley has faded. Summer will come very soon, although it seems a long Spring this time and that is something to celebrate because it freshens the air and whispers its promises. We […]
11 Jun 2024
What’s Next for Battlefield America? Israel’s High-Tech Military Tactics Point the Way
“I did not know Israel was capturing or recording my face. [But Israel has] been watching us for years from the sky with their drones. They have been watching us gardening and going to schools and kissing our wives. I feel like I have been watched for so long.” Mosab Abu Toha, Palestinian poet If […]
8 Jun 2024
AI and Commercial Music
Del Bigtree recently devoted a segment on his popular program, The Highwire, on the advent of AI in commercial music. Del created a theme song for The Highwire on one of many AI creation websites, the one he chose is Suno.com. See this segment here. So, what do you think? Pretty impressive, huh? I […]
7 Jun 2024
Whistling in the Dark
In the morning, the bobolink sings. It always heartens me—listening to the morning chorus of creatures waking up to the sun singing. Imagine. When was the last time any of us woke up singing to greet the day? Probably the mad, the newly-in-love, those who sing for a living and perhaps the children […]
2 Jun 2024
If The Wars Go On
I suppose my title could have been couched in the singular form, as Hermann Hesse, the Nobel Prize winning German/Swiss author, did with his collection of anti-war essays about World War I (the war to end all wars that didn’t), If The War Goes On … Or more appropriately, I might have eliminated […]
1 Jun 2024
Better Than…
It seems that the concept of “better than …” has completely left the human experience. And wow, what a big deal that is! I mean the entire foundation of human, as well as animal, evolution is based on “survival of the fittest.” Even if you do not believe in the Darwinian concept of …Original post on […]
25 May 2024
The norm-deviation tolerance test for authoritarianism
If you think about it, you know perfectly well what you’re allowed to say. You know what most people will nod in agreement with, and what, on the other hand, will amount to a social transgression if it’s spoken out loud. Of course, in every society, there will be certain things that are not only […]
25 May 2024
And the Cancer Keeps Rolling In
Kate Middleton has cancer. The King of England has cancer. Every day we hear of more and more people diagnosed with cancer—many of them quite young. And not a single report we hear, unless coming from alt media, will suggest that the Covid vaccines are a possible cause. There is no guarantee that […]
24 May 2024
Maybe better than we did
Now, Godot the raccoon, now aptly named Myrtle-Godot arrived plump and tired and fuzzy at dawn for what would be her morning feed. She laid her cool fingers on my hand and touched me with her cold nose and then she sprawled on her side to eat which I had not seen her do before. …Original post on […]
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