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Vernal Cycles
The Earth. Ever looping, ever spinning, Passes a point. Spring! The Sun. Ever higher, ever warmer, Melts all the snow. Spring! The World. Ever turning, ever changing, Brings forth fresh life. Spring!...
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Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
I’m surprised that, despite writing in a lot of comments about how — and if — the world is changing, I’ve never actually written a post about it. I suppose it’s implicit in some of the things I’ve...
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Violence Against Women
Was participating in a discussion about violence against women and wrote a response that’s really too long for a comment, so I thought I’d make a post of it. This is really a comment response, so you...
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Idiocracy
In 2006 Mike Judge (Office Space, King of the Hill) wrote and directed a film called Idiocracy. It postulates a future 500 years hence when, due to “The Marching Morons” theory, the world is entirely...
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Renaissance Despair
About 500 years ago a thing happened in Europe: The Scientific Renaissance. It was part of a larger thing, called the Scientific Revolution. These were the seeds that lead to the Age of Enlightenment,...
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Voices
Voices. It begins with voices. Even before we are born, we hear voices. Human language is the most complex form of inter-species communication that we know. It takes years to learn and many more years...
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Sliding into Darkness
I didn’t realize it at the time, but by staying up reading until 5 AM this morning, I was awake for the ironically named “Beginning of Summer.” I say “ironically” because the Summer Solstice is the...
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No Connection?
Exhibit A: Raymell Mourice “Ray” Rice. NFL running back for the Baltimore Ravens since 2008. He was a 2012 Super Bowl Champion and has a number of other accolades: three-times to the NFL Pro Bowl...
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Pluto Is Still a Planet
The New Horizons spacecraft on its lonely way to the planet Pluto. As far as I’m concerned, Pluto is — and will always be — a planet. I don’t at all dispute the 2006 decision of the IAU (International...
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Moar Bazball!
Wow! Kansas City Royals — the wildcard team — take the Los Angeles Angels (the best team in baseball this year) three-zip in the ALDS. And that after an amazing wildcard game against the Oakland...
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Some Commercials…
I’m Wyrd Smythe, and I really approve of this ad! This scene is so short one can wonder, ‘Is he really giving his dog beer?’ The Bud bottle is prominent, but there is also a peanut butter jar on the...
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“People Are Stupid!”
The title above is deliberately a little inflammatory, but people who know me, and people who read this blog, may — not without reason — think this is a common sentiment of mine. And it sort of is, but...
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“No Serviceable Parts Inside”
Last time I wrote about willful ignorance as one good definition of stupidity. This time, I want to explore some ideas about why there seems a growing amount of it in modern society. Of course that...
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Berman’s Vulcans
It’s hard to remember exactly, but I think I first noticed it back in the days of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. It’s even possible it really started in the earlier series, Star Trek: The Next Generation....
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Women are Local; Men are Global
I was going to write about something completely different. Specifically: religion, spirituality, atheism, morality and ethics, faith and unbelief… that sort of thing. I like one day of the week to be...
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Spam-Tember
Those of you who are bloggers, I don’t know how much you look through your Spam Comments list. I delete spam without looking at it too much. But you must go to the list to click the button, so you...
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The R-Word
Quite some time ago a woman I’d met read me the riot act over my use of the “R” word. When talking about taboo words, one immediately hits the problem of whether to mention the forbidden word, and if...
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Seinfeld Is Unfunny
The post’s title is the name of a trope[1], and while you may not know it by this handle, you have probably run into it. Perhaps from someone combing the terms “old hat” and “just” — or maybe using the...
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Gas IS Solar Power!
I have friends who are Hippie Earth Mother types. They tend to have in common a reflexive hate for non-hippie things, such as guns, nuclear power, genetically modified foods and gasoline engines. It’s...
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You’re Email
It’s bad enough that it’s winter and cold and dark and I’m stuck inside and my back is bugging me and I’ve got a major case of the seasonal blues. The icing on today’s cake is the email from the ISP...
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