Peace and health and cultural exchange have finally got 'round to improving my area. This lovely promotional for understanding and tolerance and whatnot happened at the strip mall that I go to for coffee, ice cream, tobacco and other immoralities I refuse to give up now that I can finally...Read More
Now that I am finally grown up enough to uncork things on my own I can drink in private and at my convenience and own diligence. It's pretty comforting and for the most part healthy if you don't count that my eyelids and eye underbags are tons uglier the next day...Read More
Once when my dad was in grade school one of his teachers inflicted the curriculum on her pupils of inspecting their cuticles once a week. She made them let her dig them back toward the base of their nails with a miniature shovel designed for the purpose, until...Read More
Theobald Crown McFurlong had always been proud of his name and reputation. He was eighty-two years old and as spry as chit-chat. He was a member in good standing with several community organizations, although, sadly,...Read More
(This post prompted by--and for the purpose of proving her wrong--my kind friend O., who scolded me recently for ‘squandering’ my writing, and who also informed me that chickens can live up to 15 years or so. Which I truly had not known before-I’d thought the oldest they...Read More
The more you keep rummaging around in this moral panic morass that the Gruesome Twosome tag-team of Becky Watson and The Naked Emperor have drowned us in, the more you come to realise that you are not even getting close to hitting the bottom of...Read More
Goofy little story from my college years. So, okay that’s how dated it is. I’d taken a poetry writing class a couple quarters earlier. The prof had liked my poems. (I don’t think I read any of his poems until in later years, though he...Read More
There is something so inherently pious and religious in morbidly dwelling on the perceived moral shortcomings of others.
It is a rather unfortunate habit being picked up more and more by those I describe as the New, New Atheists – the unwashed masses that have ridden into town...Read More
[This is cross-posted to the Book Club group verbatim excepting two quotations]
"Within the overall context of the task of remembering, such colorful accounts of military spectacles and large-scale operations form what might be called the highlights of history which staggers blindly from one disaster to the next. The chronicler,...Read More
Read It and Weep's last two podcasts are both very sexy and, of course, funny. In podcast #94 they review Tori Carrington's romance novel "Private Sessions." Here is part of their own description of the podcast: "We had invited famous blogger and author of a book about romance novels , Sarah...Read More
Let's start of with a basic fact. There is a huge number of reasonable christians and muslims out there, very likely a majority by a large margin. Those that are humble and non-sociopathic, who practice their faith in peace and in privacy, who simply want to coexist and understand...Read More
There is something so inherently pious and religious in morbidly dwelling on the perceived moral shortcomings of others.
