Y’know what? Belay the post about “the lads” being either children or old. Whatever Steinbeck meant, it only might make sense in normal times. In 2020, exactly like infants and the infirm aged, we are ALL tyrannized by our “nurses”. It doesn’t matter how we feel, they know our health, they can gage the limits … Continue reading The Tyranny of the Nursery and/or Nursing Home →

Oh please, don’t tell me this is going to be another episode like the Las Vegas massacre a few years ago, where we NEVER find out who or why. Okay, I mean, a van is sitting there for ..what, half an hour, intermittently broadcasting the exact time it will explode, interspersed with musical interludes. (What … Continue reading The Nashville Bombing →

No, sorry, I know that isn’t what anybody expects or wants to think upon right now, we’re still in Christmastide, after all. What’s so great about Christmastide is, it’s a “time out of time”. Christmases follow each other, not the springs and summers and autumns in between, as John Crowley wrote. In one way Christmastides … Continue reading Time For Hate →

...I just have to tell you I cannot live with these fucking Leftists any longer. This is a big half-continent; let’s split it up, and let freedom living people live in one part , the sanctimonious freedom-hating bozos in the other. This kind of partition is never accomplished without bloodshed. But, if this is my … Continue reading I know it’s Christmas Eve, but…. →

My email has gotten ...kinda capricious in the last few days. A big tranche from last week, messages I hadn’t seen, suddenly flooded into my inbox yesterday. And this AM I got one from a friend who said a message she wrote last week (and which I received then) suddenly showed up on her screen … Continue reading It’s A Set-up →

Sleepless at about 2AM, I was surfing around (do people still say that?) with my IPad, and I came across an article about sex robots being designed to give, or withhold, consent to intercourse. The ethicist who was interviewed sees two problems: if the sex bot is designed with the ability to say yea or … Continue reading Redux: Because That’s How We All “Bot” Here! →

This is IT! From now on, the light starts coming back. Today is the Winter Solstice. I don’t have anything special to offer. I just didn’t want you to think I forgot. Does anybody remember Christmas Revels? That used to be one of my favorite things, a performance of music and poetry mixing ancient Celtic … Continue reading The Shortest Day →

I found an old paperback...well no “found” isn’t the mot juste . In our house there are generations of books; sometimes one just kinda...surfaces, like a long buried artifact might work its way to the surface. It’s more like occasionally, a book finds me! Whose was this yellowed little Penguin paperback of John Steinbeck’s The … Continue reading About The Lads →

...that is my one, heretofore incontrovertible response to assholes who ask, why SHOULD heterosexuality be privileged over homosexuality, asexuality, trans sexuality? Because, you idiot, some man coupling with some woman is how you and I and everybody else who ever existed and/or ever will exist, came to live and breathe and have our being. ‘Kay? … Continue reading Because That’s How We All GOT Here! →