Sometimes people are helpful because they are nice, sometimes they are helpful because it is in their interest to be helpful. If they work for a company motivated by profit they have a reason, an incentive,

I think I've been in favor of irreverence, in general, through most of my adult life. So, the whole issue of people tearing down statues, built with tax money, and placed on the government's stolen land

Gay people are people, with full human and constitutional rights. Trans people are people with full human and constitutional rights. Muslims are people with full human and constitutional rights. Buddhists

Enjoyment can't help but praise. I hit another goldmine of wisdom and amusement in 2022, and the book/reading list below was a large part of that. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. I love this poem. It

I started tracking my food about a month ago because in the past I've always hit a plateau with weight loss, and I need data to break through it. I use CarbManager because it focused on a low-carb diet

We just finished my favourite musical, and one of my all time favourite movies: Fiddler on the Roof. It is heart breakingly beautiful. There is, of course, no overt Christmas association: it is about Jews

The FBI's non-rebuttal - parroted by the same people who have done nothing but run cover for flagrant abuses of power by both the government and a giant corporation, and who are otherwise trying to claim

Outside of a handful of hateful boomers and misogynist dullards... we love and appreciate you. We appreciate the times you've been our mentors, we appreciate your contributions to the future of humanity,

We can disagree about, you know... tax policy or cultural issues or whatever the latest decision from the fed happens to be and all that. But if you hear about US intelligence agencies actively using powerful

John McWhorter wrote an excellent column that appeared in today's NY Times. I highly recommend reading it: My one quibble with McWhorter is about the use of the word "hurtful." It's a tricky

Believe it or not, I have some experience in this area. It's been more than a decade and a half since my last performance on stage. It's also been a while since I've performed on camera; but, I've been

When I was a kid, I loved that playing with a lightsaber meant that it made you invulnerable to any of kind of toy gun. There wasn't any debate about that. It was just understood. Better yet, all the other

A typical liberal despises Trump for silly things that were made artificially important by the press; making fun of journalists, naming people like "low energy Jeb" as childish and using course