I'm a very late bloomer. Took me until my early 40's to finally take charge of my life, to take responsibility, and recognize my own complicity in the many chaotic and painful advents of my life, at least

This study claims honey lowers fasting glucose, LDL cholesterol, triglycerides and more. Of course if you zoom in just a little bit it says "(low certainty)" or "(low certainty of

Fair enough. It's easy to conflate "years of school required" with how difficult something is. But sometimes it's the positions that require no formal education, such as entrepreneurship, that

Strolling across socials and everyone is complaining about winter, snow and cold weather. It reminds me of when my partner and I were moving from Boston to Syracuse a good few decades ago. The moving van

Sometimes I can express myself and sometimes I don't do a very good job of it. Some like my personal stories, and maybe I am best at telling those, but when I try to express what I feel about this world,

This is eventually gonna be a review of the 1994 film, Before the Rain; but, there's a bit of framing to be done before I dive into it. Really, I just kinda stumbled upon it. I hadn't heard of the film

Years ago we had a well-paid consultant at work. He came in for a couple of days every week, and we often talked about non-work topics. One day, while sharing personal updates, he mentioned that he and

Relativist: There's no such thing as a moral fact. Me: Okay, let's circumvent the softball questions. Are you going to say that it is just an opinion that rape is wrong? Relativist: Yes, I believe that

I've seen a lot of people claiming confidently that we could have got both Griner and Whelan, or Whelan instead. Could we have? I don't know, and if you're reading this, neither do you. Yeah... You can

Throughout my life, with many relocations and moves, where ever I have hung my hat has become home, but there are moments when I miss living in Round Valley! I now live in the woods, no more big sky. I

Davids Graeber and Wengrow are (were) two very smart and well-read anarchists, and their The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity is certainly a feast. But it is also a reminder of the sheer

This logic suggests that psychopaths should be denied the right to vote and leadership positions, Since they are disproportionately in positions of authority, this would invert politics - so called

Elon Musk is on a lot of folks minds these days. I have very mixed feelings about the guy, given what I have read about his background, and his futuristic visions of establishing life on Mars, his SpaceX,

Given that everybody knew exactly what was going on, I'm still surprised to see the response to the release of the Twitter Files. This goes for the reaction of journalists, which remind me of Project

I encourage you to read, in its entirety, Joe Biden’s letter, issued today, to the Rules and Bylaws Committee of the Democratic National Committee. I find so many things wrong with this letter, but I’ll

The headline for the article linked below, talks about how Kanye West has received widespread denunciation. I think the article did a real disservice by ignoring and failing to report on the range of

So, as I frequently do, at the end of another day, thoughts congeal into a need to express something or other. So, here we go. So, I was watching Greg Gutfeld's comedy show, kind of an anecdote to all

Anyone with a modicum of curiosity, and perhaps a natural skepticism of the status quo, has questioned the powers of authority. This can begin in childhood with the "do as I say, not as I do",

In times of scarcity, we will become more creative and innovative. Some of us do see those times coming, so in relative dire straits tonight, I experimented. I just watched a sappy movie on Netflix, that

As I delve to get away from the daily onslaughts of social (and global) chaos, and the resultant mental responses to such, my mind often wanders elsewhere. I was just sitting in a living room chair, kinda,