My Catalog

On (not) going along to get along, the masks I wear to placate the Sunny-Side-Up Cultists, and the weariness which results. — I’m tired of life; weary and tired. I’ve been living with chronic depression longer than I ever lived without it, and I resent having to deal with it. I resent not being able to live and thrive as easily as those around me, and I’m tired of pretending like it’s…

A few quick thoughts on pandemic apathy and the dangers it poses. — I’ve a confession — I’m still masking whenever I go out in public, and I’m not the least bit embarrassed to admit it. Why? Because I have the good sense to realize that the COVID19 pandemic is far from resolved. Sure, it’s not as deadly as it was, thanks to…

A few thoughts on religion, bad messaging, naive humans and their assumptive nature. — The older I get, the more aware I become of the psychological effects of falling prey to propaganda. What’s more, I become increasingly aware of just what constitutes propaganda and how it feeds our collective delusions, and this awareness causes me a lot of discomfort and anxiety. As they say…

What needs to happen if we are to preserve our Republic and ensure it becomes a legitimate beacon of light for the world. — Recently, a Democrat senator in my state sent out an email solicitation for money designed as a (bad) attempt to gauge the pulse of the Democrat voters in this part of flyover country, under the guise of listening to what ideas we might have on how to take back our…

A few observations on the latest offerings from the teams behind Star Trek-Strange New Worlds and The Orville. — So far, I’ve enjoyed what I’ve been seeing from the new Star Trek series Strange New Worlds. The visuals are compelling, the stories are generally interesting on the whole and the acting is first rate. Even the background actors are worth their salt; whereas in the Original series, they’d be…

A few thoughts on willful ignorance and the stubbornness inherent in self-righteous human thinking. — It can’t have escaped anyone’s notice that there are a lot of people calling the shots lately who are laughably divorced from reality. The recent SCOTUS decisions on various progressive issues, not the least of which is Roe v. Wade, are the biggest elephants in the room right now, and…

A Brief Rundown on Some of the Varieties of Non-belief. — Let’s get it out of the way now. Nearly EVERY human on the planet is an Atheist with respect to most of the gods ever invented in the history of our species. …

And the people most divorced from it are allowed to dictate terms. — There’s a saying which goes “If you’re not a liberal at 20, you’ve got no heart, but if you’re still a liberal at 40, you’ve got no brain.” I used to append to this saying by asserting that if you’re a conservative at any age, you’re just an idiot. Now…